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...Washington were bigger. The 150 businessmen who visited it in a body last week were piddling small. They did not come of their, own volition. They came on peremptory summons from the NRA for violating in their many little dry-cleaning shops throughout the land their miniscule but racket-infested industry's minimum price agreement (65? to 95? for cleaning a suit or dress...
...Wexler pictured himself as a poor man. He was, he said, only a small cog in a big wheel. His real bosses had been Hassel and Greenberg who gave him a modest allowance, supplied limousines to "keep up the front." He owned no breweries, knew little about the beer racket, and nothing at all about New York gang murders. When Prosecutor Dewey called his testimony a lie, Wexler wept...
...With the repeal of Prohibition, big bootleggers are turning to the gasoline racket. This week in Manhattan officials of nine Eastern States will meet to discus? the bootleg menace, try to coordinate tax collecting efforts...
Blood Money (Twentieth Century), contrived as a vehicle to bring George Bancroft back to the screen after an absence of 18 months, is a mildly exciting little treatise on the bail bond racket. Its hero, Bill Bailey (Bancroft), is a bluff bondsman who gets into difficulties with his underworld associates when, to pay back a bank thief for stealing his girl, he makes less sympathetic arrangements than usual. It is notable less for Bancroft's contribution than for its villainess (Frances Dee), a pretty, well-mannered debutante who is also a masochist, a kleptomaniac and an exhibitionist. Good shot...
Austrian Jew, Lawyer Kresel had been an assistant to Crusader William Travers Jerome, a special Federal Attorney in the post-War "Beef Trust" probe, an inquisitor of Manhattan's ambulance-chasing racket, and one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank...