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...also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry -- Schultz calls them "dago scungili" -- are moving in on his operations. Dreadful events threaten; all of them occur, and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Shadow of Dutch Schultz | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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