Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney's office. They were William Bernard Herlands, 30, chunky, pink-cheeked, piano-playing Columbia graduate who VT?.S to become his right-hand man; suave Jacob Joseph Rosenblum, 38, who sent Banker Jo- seph Harriman to jail and might have convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded...
Lehman, demanding that the district attorney be superseded by a special prosecutor of rackets. Impressed, Governor Lehman named four well-known lawyers, including Charles Evans Hughes Jr., asked that one of them take the job. Unanimously they turned it down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired...
Dewey's further racket strokes had been less spectacular and conclusive. He had kept his trial record perfect: 52 indictments, 52 convictions. Proceeding with extreme secrecy and caution, refusing to strike until he felt sure he had enough evidence to convict, he had made public beginnings against rackets in the trucking, garment, used-brick and poultry industries. Finding the notorious poultry racket apparently impregnable, he had succeeded in indicting its reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches...
...Luciano, Prosecutor Dewey was no more interested in policy gambling than he had been in prostitution. But though he never expected to wipe out prostitution, he did announce that he might abolish policy in the only way it ever could be abolished-by showing betters what a "crooked gyp racket...
Contracting-Day before his policy raids Prosecutor Dewey made his first public move, after a 13-month investigation, against an electrical contracting racket. Subpoenaed were the books of city power companies, of three trade associations, private contractors, and of a local of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (an A. F. of L. affiliate). A Dewey aide charged that the leaders of the union had, by violence aided a monopoly of electrical contracting which cost New York citizens $10,000,000 per year. Baking. Two days later Mr. Dewey closed in, after more than a year of sleuthing, on a baking...