Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small Peanuts." The Senators quizzed Anthony Anastasia and his brother Albert, the rich Brooklyn mobster and onetime Murder, Inc. suspect who never stood trial, although District Attorney O'Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators...
...Communist, like a skunk, is often easier to identify than catch. No one knows this better than the Government's Loyalty Review Board, which has often tried to fire an employee for disloyalty, only to have the suspect throw up a fog of doubt and win reinstatement. Last week the Loyalty Board asked the President for permission to cut through the fog by tightening its rules to fit World War II standards. Instead of having to prove "reasonable grounds" of disloyalty, "it wanted to shift the emphasis and dismiss any employee when there was "reasonable doubt" that...
Items found at the home of Raymond S. McFarland, thief suspect whom police apprehended Tuesday in Emerson Hall, will be presented for inspection there...
...suspect it's merely a plot to force everybody into the army and settle the draft question," stated Stanley Green...
...into their own hands. The movie keeps the action going at full tilt and draws on such acting talent as Macdonald Carey (Jesse), Wendell Corey (Frank James) and Ward Bond (the Yankee villain). Moviegoers who find glorified hoodlums hard to stomach, even at a safe historical distance, may suspect that Hollywood is almost ready for a film biography treating Al Capone-played, say, by Alan Ladd-as the innocent butt of a spiteful internal-revenue...