Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week bluff, hearty old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines. on trial as political fixer for New York City's numbers racket (TIME. Sept. 5), had heard a long string of criminals readily admitting bribery, thuggery and perjury in building their $20,000,000-a-year gambling racket. Last week Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey called two more witnesses embarrassing to the defense...
Another witness was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's smooth young mouthpiece, whose career at the bar, a polar opposite to that of 36-year-old Thomas Edmund Dewey, was fully as precocious. Having turned State's evidence in hope of saving his hide, Davis answered most Dewey questions with a bright "That's right." He described his association with the racket's murdered boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, and with Jimmy Hines. At 27. said Dixie, he had five lawyers working for him and paid $7,500 a year in office rent. He described...
While New Yorkers watched their crusading District Attorney Thomas Dewey expose a gambling racket that preys on the pennies of the poor, Chicagoans were last week being treated by their State's Attorney Thomas Courtney to a more de luxe gambling crusade. Shuttling across the sprawling city, Mr. Courtney's ax squads demolished 19 handbook (horse-race betting) offices. Other gambling dens closed their doors in fear, or installed cheap furniture and carried on furtively...
...campaign was billed as the first really cooperative venture in cinema history. Executive Chairman George J. Schaefer (United Artists) explained it as the same kind of campaign that gets people to eat more bread. Outside the industry it was conceded that if his salaryless committees made enough racket they might get enough new customers to pay their expenses. But no amount of racket would call off the Department of Justice's impending suit...
...Columbia). Part of the campaign now being conducted by Hollywood studios to persuade the U. S. Department of Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave...