Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which is as fatal in politics as it is in the underworld-he overestimated himself...
Bums & Gandy-Dancers. Charles Binaggio started modestly enough, in the Kansas City underworld nurtured by the late Boss Tom Pendergast. The storm that swept old Tom into prison passed him by, and he was arrested only occasionally on gambling and bootlegging charges. He took over the heavily Italian First Ward with its flophouse bums, indigents, and gandy-dancers, slowly began building back the lopsided majorities of Pendergast days. He took cuts on gambling, used his "influence" to sell Canadian Ace Beer, a brew produced by prosperous relicts of the old Capone syndicate in Chicago. He bought a handsome house...
...part of Colorado (for circulation purposes, at least), the Denver Post sent its crime editor, Gene Lowall, into Dallas last January. On assignment as roving "house dick" for the Post (TIME, Oct. 31), husky, balding Newsman Lowall spent four busy days talking crime with members of Dallas' upper & underworld...
...dollar armored ear robbery, and will probably prove unsatisfying to readers of Boston newspapers. But good acting and directing, and a half-hearted attempt to face the problem of what happens to a man when he is released from jail, improve it somewhat over the run-of-the-mail underworld picture...
...crime, it contained no bombshells likely to blow Frank Costello out of his Manhattan apartment. But the new syndicate's bosses were betting that cooperative reporting would make national headlines before long. One promising sign: gangdom was so worried that pool reporters had already been "approached" by the underworld...