Word: raps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big Al's biggest brother. Once he even tried to pin a murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with the look on Greasy Thumb's fat face-which was often...
...going to be pinched for many materials because of the failure of the stockpiling program. And although he had not taken over the job until last November, just before many prices such as rubber started up, Munitions Board Boss Hubert E. Howard took the rap. Last week he handed in his resignation and President Truman accepted...
...Clear. After 31 days of investigation and two million words of testimony, the subcommittee underwrote the loyalty of the State Department and cleared everybody McCarthy accused, with only a light knuckle rap here & there. Likewise innocent, said the report, were all Government investigators or prosecutors who had been assailed for mishandling the Amerasia case (although the report slipped lightly over the refusal of Amerasia Editor Philip Jaffe to testify for fear of possible self-incrimination). The report also urged a careful restudy of the principle of congressional immunity, which gave Joe McCarthy his libel-proof soapbox...
...Second Rap. Nine months later, just as Shephard was due for his freedom, detectives from neighboring Newark arrested him for other forgeries committed during the period covered in his first conviction...
...leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...