Word: rothstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That a fur workers' union borrowed $1,750,000 from the late Gambler Arnold Rothstein, hired "Legs" Diamond to do its dirty work...
...York State Tax Department it was reported that the estate (once appraised at $1,757,572) of mysteriously murdered Gambler Arnold Rothstein is now insolvent. Added the tax report: "The assets of this estate were not marketable assets . . . but were peculiar, due to the odd business interests of the decedent...
...called back to the city's service. While Mayor Walker was dining out and making the wisecracks which endeared him to every Irish heart, things had gone on which put his administration in bad odor. One was the notoriously unsolved murder of the famed Gambler Arnold Rothstein. To rescue the administration from shame, Grover Whalen was made police commissioner. Soon the shortcomings of the police department were forgotten. Commissioner Whalen completely and drastically altered the city's method of traffic regulation, thereby producing an entirely new furor...
...advisers not to be fooled by "funny facts and figures," the Forum printed a Resettlement Administration publicity photograph of parched and cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels...
Promptly the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune swung into action on the story, ordered its Washington Bureau to dig in the RA publicity files for confirmation. Next day the Herald Tribune frontpaged an article about three other Rothstein "drought pictures," in at least two of which the same steer's skull had apparently been used for dramatic effect. One print was labeled "Drought Victim," giving the distinct impression that the steer had just been laid low by the weather. Another was located in "the Bad Lands" which no farmer in his right mind would attempt to cultivate...