Word: shushan
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...Hoover announcement, newshawks waited an hour. Out the door suddenly burst a wedge of Federal agents, who clattered down the corridor with Director Hoover shouting angrily at photographers, "No pictures, no pictures!" Outside, agents threw manacled, coatless Alvin Karpis into a huge red automobile, went roaring off for Shushan airport. Next morning...
...District Attorney's office one of them cornered Associated Press Photographer Leon Trice, who was once knocked unconscious on Huey Long's command, smashed his camera, was commencing to smash him when a little, old U. S. marshal drove him off. In a corridor Colonel Shushan & friends met the other offenders...
...friends obediently smashed cameras, slugged one fleeing newsman from behind. This done, Colonel Shushan invited "the boys" to a Victory Party in Huey Long's personal suite at the Hotel Roosevelt...
...Government had charged, and the defense freely admitted, that from 1929 to 1933 "Abe" Shushan received and failed to report for tax purposes more than $400,000, largely through a 2?-per-cubic-yard tribute which he, as president of the New Orleans Levee Board, exacted from dredging contractors. The defense maintained that these payments were simply political contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine. The Government traced large sums of Defendant Shushan's "political" income to personal expenditures, while the defense could trace only $44,000 to the Long treasury...
...Government prepared to file a civil tax suit against him, "Abe" Shushan resigned his presidency of the Levee Board, announced he was out of politics for good...