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...both the Republican and Democratic parties are controlled by essentially the same financial groupings, Hallinan said ". . . it makes about as much difference to the average voter whether Eisenhower or Stevenson is elected as it did to the average New Yorker whether Al Capone or Bugs Moran ran the numbers racket...
...Biggest Racket." Bootlegging, says Calvert Distillers' President W. W. Wachtel, has become "the biggest money-making racket in the world." Though nobody knows exactly how big the racket is, the liquor industry has some impressive evidence of its size. Last year federal, state and local agents seized some 20,000 stills v. 29,000 seized in 1928 during Prohibition by federal agents. It is estimated that one still out of five is found. On that basis, there may be more than 100,000 illegal stills in operation...
...considers itself one notch better than the new rich of the automobile industry. Soapy insists, however, on making a distinction when he and Alger are referred to as a couple of millionaires. "Alger traveled in the polo-pony class," says the Democratic candidate, "while I was in the tennis-racket crowd...
...Ramoosics, also panderers, had a side interest in a bungalow-protection racket. The Bhamptas were railroad thieves. Their favorite trick, best performed on a crowded train, was to frighten a baby, slide to the floor to comfort it, and meanwhile slit open the baggage of the other passengers. The Kolis impersonated cops: descending on a village, they would arrest the village constable on some phony charge, then strip the village. Other groups became counterfeiters, moonshiners, muggers. Children learned crime at their mother's knee. Some tribes pressed a silver rupee, fastened to a piece of string, into a newborn...
Tailor Jones switched from pantsmaking to the policy racket and made Ted Roe his first "runner," i.e., salesman of lottery chances. Protected by the Kelly-Nash machine, Jones was making $2,000 a day by 1930, $10,000 a day by 1938. Ted Roe got fat cuts of the fat profits...