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...mere rewrite job from newspaper morgue material, the Thompson & Raymond book purports to tell several facts never told before about the great Broad way character, Arnold Rothstein, financier to the rackets, fence for stolen jewelry, unofficial intermediary between honorable Manhattan banking houses and gangsters in need of cash. Sample: Rothstein held insurance policies totaling $1,500,000 on the lives of three theatrical producers (the insurance policy was Rothstein's customary device for insuring collection of loans: if a borrower was killed, his debt would be paid off; if he refused to pay, he knew there was a definite...
...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...
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...