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...Harry Truman's campaign manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month for "anything he can do" to help Hood's lumber business...
...George blocked the exit with his 205-lb. frame and nobody even tried to escape. Next morning, the exploit made the headlines, and letters began to pour in supporting his one-man crusade. For a week he patrolled the gambling and red-light belts each night, but the underworld seemed to have gone out of business...
...occasion, the Senators brought forth an Interesting Character-none other than "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, once Scarface Al Capone's chancellor of exchequer, and now one of the monarchs of the Chicago underworld...
That just about wound up the show, except for a few forthright and patriotic remarks from J. Edgar Hoover. The Kefauver committee had spent eleven months on the trail of the U.S. underworld, and left behind three sheriffs fired, at least a dozen police officials demoted or indicted, scores of damaged reputations. Its methods had created misgivings, as all congressional investigations do: in effect, trying witnesses who are not formally charged with any crime, using loose rules of evidence and few of the protective procedures of a judicial body. And it had raised a new problem: the propriety of doing...
...criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while the cameras concentrated on his fidgeting hands, emerged as a wire-pulling colossus, a sort of bogus Bernard Baruch of the underworld...