Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shooting Gallery. It was also Ford's fear of robbers and kidnapers, says Bennett, plus his humane desire to rehabilitate crooks, that led the company to employ thousands of former criminals. Bennett insists he did not originate the policy, but he perfected it, made the underworld his ally, so that it would tell him of any plots against Ford or the company. He gave a Ford agency to Chester La Mare, reputed boss of Detroit's underworld, and turned over the plant's fruit concession to him. When a Detroit child was kidnaped, Ford...
Over all of Sandrino's twisted personal behavior hovers a political fantasy: that Fascism will make a comeback in Italy. To hurry X-day along, he signs over Virginia's remaining lire to some underworld sharpies. For a receipt they give him a bit of black cloth, purportedly from Mussolini's death shirt, soon leave him holding...
...Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
...time of Feinberg's arrest a classmate called him, "The sort of guy who likes to talk big about his illegal deals and boast of his underworld friends. I considered him just a talker...
...time of Feinberg's arrest a classmate called him, "The sort of guy who likes to talk big about his illegal deals and boast of his underworld friends. I considered him just a talker...