Word: rackets
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...Sabbatino, "this is one case where Jimmy Hines gets a break. Go home." Meantime, Harlem's smart gamblers had shifted from Numbers to betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
Hard of hearing and inclined to mumble, Witness Weinberg, who was business manager for the racket's late boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, told how charges for "Pop," averaging $750 a week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines...
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...
...approval of the presiding judge. Blue ribbon jurors, drawn by lot from the regular jury panel, are examined in person by the Commissioner of Jurors. Qualifications: alertness, more than average intelligence, more than $250 worth of personal property. Prosecutor Dewey has had blue ribbon juries in all his major racket cases...
...Racket Busters (Walter Abel, Humphrey Bogart; TIME...