Word: remmer
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...talk, was soon earning $15,000 a year as the Examiner's prize drawing card. Once, when he called a lady Oakland evangelist "sexy-looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered a $500-a-month bribe to lay off, he hid a microphone and got a transcript of the offer; it made juicy reading...
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