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The history that Nevins has collected so far flows through Cabinet meetings and conventions, peace treaties and panics, big-business deals and back-room intrigue. It ranges from the inside story of the Black Sox scandal to a prominent doctor's recollections of Henry James, from Norman Thomas'...
But he was recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous...
After that Frank Costello was poison in the big city. This year when he gave a $100-a-plate charity dinner for the Salvation Army at the Copacabana, eight judges, including Aurelio, a Congressman and all the top Tammany politicos turned up in dutiful droves. But the newspaper headlines that...
Died. John T. Dooling, 78, white-topped power in Tammany Hall during its heyday, for 40 years legal adviser to Tammany's candidates (including Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mayor James J. Walker); in White Plains, N.Y.
Died. Michael Joseph Kennedy, 52, veteran Tammany wheelhorse; in an airplane crash; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A onetime Democratic Representative from New York (1938-42), Kennedy became Tammany sachem in 1942, was ousted two years later after bigtime Gambler Frank Costello admitted that he had used money and influence...