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Looking it over one day early this year, a hard-eyed little dope peddler named...
...Brooklyn student testified that a boy dope peddler in his high school boasted of making from $300 to $400 a day. "I used to be the bookie in the school," said the witness. "He lost enough money to me so he should be telling the truth...
...doctor in St. Joseph, Missouri gave him morphine. Danny had been an insecure, troubled child longer than he could remember-both his mother & father died before he was five. At 16, Danny knew nothing about psychology, but he knew that the "shot" gave him a lift. From a peddler he got morphine regularly for six months; then he lost his contact and could get no more. He became weak, nauseated, sweaty, shaky and depressed. Danny was sent to a state hospital...
...manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month for "anything he can do" to help Hood's lumber business...
...Wolf. Oldtimers at San Quentin still remember the surgery The Croaker did on "Wolf" Blaisdell, a snarling, point-eared dope peddler whose viciously lupine features were matched only by his surly character. One day, shortly before his release, the Wolf came to Dr. Stanley and with unwonted meekness begged that something be done about his face. He was tired, said the Wolf, of having people slink away whenever they saw him. Dr. Stanley smoothed out his gash-like wrinkles, trimmed down his ears, sent the rejuvenated Wolf back into the world personable enough to date Red Riding Hood. Since then...