Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible boss of U.S. mobilization, Charlie Wilson must expect to take the rap for this delay. As long as six months ago, defense production was obviously lagging; but Wilson was so anxious "not to disturb the civilian economy that defense producers often came in last in the race for scarce materials and skilled manpower. Furthermore, Charlie Wilson thought that he could confine himself to policy matters, let other agencies (Commerce, DPA, Interior, etc.) carry out the job. But the other agencies sometimes worked at cross purposes without firm direction from topside. Now, it looks as if Wilson will need...
Matt had "helped out" before, too, he told the court. In 1949, he and a friend got one of Osborne's clients out of a murder rap by their rehearsed testimony; neither one of them, had been anywhere near the murder. In another case, Lawyer Osborne had pushed toy automobiles around the floor of his office for two hours so that one of Matt's friends would be familiar with the details of an auto-accident case. At Osborne's urging, they signed a bogus eyewitness statement, and the lawyer rubbed it on the floor to make...
...Brooklyn district attorney reopened the ten-year-old case of Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles; there was even talk of exhuming Reles' corpse. His mysterious plunge from a hotel window one day in 1941, while under police guard, blew up a perfect rap against Murder Inc.'s Executioner Albert Anastasia. William O'Dwyer was Brooklyn district attorney at the time. Anastasia went free, and still is. Last week immigration authorities arrested one of Albert's five brothers (they all jumped ship to enter the U.S.) on illegal entry charges...
...mobster and onetime Murder, Inc. suspect who never stood trial, although District Attorney O'Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators retire and get J. Edgar Hoover up here? He'll tell them...
...cell blocks and told him: "You have 2,000 men to choose from." Convict assistants had not figured in Wilson's blueprint. But he wound up with six of them: a safecracker, a smuggler, a counterfeiter, a forger, a gangster and an innocent who had taken the rap for a woman...