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Along with jittery section men, many pinball artists, punchboard players, and No Dos Pill addicts were apprehensive about results from the inquiry. Radcliffe House Mothers were also said to be nervous, although this condition was unconnected with the creation of the investigatory group...
...committee probed other payoffs that had reached to the state level. In California, the committee said, representatives of Attorney General Fred Howser had set out to organize protection for all slot-machine and punchboard operations through the whole state. In Missouri, the state government "narrowly escaped falling under the control of gangsters" in 1948, the committee declared. Former State Attorney General Roy McKittrick testified that the late Charlie Binaggio offered him $50,000 to withdraw his rival candidacy to now-Governor Forrest Smith, told him: "I have to have a governor." After election, Binaggio was seen so often leaving Governor...
...week's end the committee was back in Washington quizzing bookies and investigating the "billion-dollar" punchboard racket. But it proposed to come back to New York next month, interview O'Dwyer in person, and hold open hearings with a group of witnesses which might even include Virginia Hill, great & good friend of the late "Bugsy" Siegel. New Yorkers could hardly wait to find out whether the city had been suffering from deep-seated Costello-itus or just surface symptoms of itchy fingers...
...Punchboard Padres. An indictment charging an arm-long list of felonies accused the fake clergy of collecting money under false pretenses. In ten years of canvassing Manhattan for a non-existent shelter, nursery, and boys' camp, said the District Attorney, they had collected more than half a million dollars...
...forth by airplane two or three times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside, Calif. He eggs his salesmen on with contests in which they win chances on a punchboard (two for selling a De Soto, one for a Plymouth) containing $35,000 in prizes...