Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smooth, slick-haired and hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press...
...Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc., the world's biggest grain trader. Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were sold for feed. (Cargill got the Bureau of Customs...
...elder party a 49 to 47 majority in the next Upper House. But the GOP may be able to keep Senate control by unseating Democrats in turn. In five states where Democrats are wobbly--Tennessee, New Mexico, Montans, Colorado, and Texas--the Republicans are desperately pouring in funds and slick campaign speakers...
...case hung on the story told by slick-haired Reporter Staktopoulos, 36-year-old stringer for Reuters news agency. A graduate of Communist training schools, he had been ordered to renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...
...Sullivan, slick Hal Fitkin, and fullback Herb Carey will carry the ball. Conrad Pensavalle, who terrorized Harvard partisans two years ago at Hanover with a one-man exhibition of both running and throwing, has been forced down to third string listing...