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...risk of compromising its financial position, the Crimson has decided to have nothing more to do with this organized vice racket. It is necessary somehow to force the lids off the sewer holes, to shine the light of day on the putrefaction within. The University must be made to examine itself. For recognition of the amazing whole and its details can surely have only one result: steps toward extermination...
When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses...
...equipment and furniture companies to sell goods to the city for new buildings in 1935-37. One made $69,000 for the family, the other about $42,000. The District Attorney said that in 1928 Hines got $7,500 from a man & woman sentenced to prison in a "numbers" racket case. Their sentences were reduced. He acted as intermediary with the Tenement House Commission for several Bronx property owners. They gave...
...Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's lawyer, and Harry Schoenhaus, the racket's treasurer, both of whom turned State's evidence, got respectively one year (of which 170 days had al ready been served), and a suspended sentence...
...Crime, Ten Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than the liquor racket, he attributes mainly to Repeal. Taverns, he says, are brothel incubators; ex-bootleggers have turned syndicate white slavers, doing business on a nationwide scale (even in trailers...