Word: underworlders
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...national lottery would help to eliminate the underworld from gambling and serve to divert considerable sums of money into the national treasury...
...only communicated with him in a manner befitting his station (i.e., through his attorney) , but had arranged to have cops at the airport to prevent any possible chance of his getting plugged on arrival. Last week, as he waited to keep his appointment, the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" was determined to be just as polite to the Senate...
Well, why did all the committee's witnesses keep referring to him as an underworld big shot? Costello was ready. Said he, earnestly...
...Kansas City the motive for last month's assassination of Mobster Charles Gargotta was made a little clearer: Gargotta had squealed. Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury...
...separate eastern syndicate were brought to light last summer. Two men were arrested on August 23, 1949, by Boston police in a raid which uncovered equipment indicating a tie-up with baseball pool syndicate activities then under scrutiny by New York investigators. They had previously ascertained that underworld-controlled "wire services," once devoted to horse racing, are now used to communicate baseball odds to bookmaking establishments throughout the country. The investigators also referred to Ralph Capone, reputed present head of the Capone syndicate, as "relentlessly muscling in on the baseball racket from coast-to-coast." Commenting on the Boston raid...