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Attorney's office. They were William Bernard Herlands, 30, chunky, pink-cheeked, piano-playing Columbia graduate who VT?.S to become his right-hand man; suave Jacob Joseph Rosenblum, 38, who sent Banker Jo- seph Harriman to jail and might have convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded...
...they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches bore fruit in three moves characteristic of his methods and purposes. The policy racket (numbers game), by which small New York City betters are mulcted of some $50,000,000 per year (TIME, Jan. 4), was once a Dutch Schultz monopoly. It passed on his death to Luciano and has since been divided among several large rings, hundreds of small independent "bankers." Setting up temporary headquarters one evening^ in upper Riverside Drive's historic, city-owned Claremont Inn, now closed for the winter, Mr. Dewey sent 70 detectives swarming...
...Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance ("waiters' union"); two of a local of A. F. of L.'s Delicatessen & Restaurant Countermen & Employes ("cafeteria workers") Union. Nine others had been named in the indictment. Three of them were fugitives. Four more were Dutch Schultz, reputed founder of the restaurant racket, one of his henchmen and two union leaders-all dead by violence. An eighth was the late president of the Cafeteria Workers local, dead by his own hand last December while awaiting trial. The ninth, reputed collector and No. 2 man of the racket, pleaded guilty on the first...
...Dutch Schultz was ambushed in Newark in 1935, the winning number in his Harlem game...
...year. The unsavory talent which was once lavished upon 'legging is now employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff is usually 600-to-1. Moreover, the runner generally gets 10% of the winnings as commission and an additional tip is in order. Welching...