Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing their own digging into the Costello past and present. Much of it was the business of tracking down rumors which often proved to be untrue, and triple-checking the facts. In the midst of his New Orleans investigation Correspondent Ed Ogle answered his telephone and the following conversation took place...
There were some changes in the cast of characters. Elderly (73), dignified Judge Henry Goddard, an appointee of President Harding, took the place of Judge Samuel Kaufman, an appointee of President Truman. A jury of eight women and four men took the places of the two women and ten men who, last summer, had so sensationally disagreed as to whether Hiss was guilty of perjury. At the defense table the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer, Claude B. Cross, had replaced the flamboyant Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...
...shots himself; he had long since quit packing a gun. He was a big shot from the start-a fixer, conniver, ship operator and financier-who did his work in an office at 405 Lexington Avenue, made business trips to Montreal to buy liquor from Canadian and European exporters, took enormous risks and made enormous profits. He also kept himself so shadowy and unobtrusive a figure that when U.S. Attorney Emory Buckner made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to smash the liquor racket, Costello was erroneously charged with being an accomplice rather than a competitor of Rum King Big Bill...
...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 Atlantic City peace conference of 1929, Frank Costello took a leading part in calling for cartels in the 'rackets instead of armed competition-a role which gained him the title of "The Prime Minister of the Underworld...