Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...occasions for great festivity. In the 16th Century, British surgeons were legally allowed to dissect dead bodies. Edinburgh surgeons were granted "ane condampnit [condemned] man after he be deid." But by the 18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected girl to her lover: "The arm that used to take your...