Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the Army. Meanwhile, the commission was told that Jersey City's Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every...
Throughout the crime commission's first sessions, Luchese remained a shadowy figure, little more than a name, as the commission flailed away at an old but far from dead horse: underworld influence in Tammany Hall, the nerve center of Manhattan's ailing Democratic organization. Some of its findings...
...feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...
Chicago is the Democratic stronghold, usually producing pluralities of around 250,000. The Chicago Democratic machine is the most effective in the U.S. Although Chicago's boss Jacob ("Jack") Arvey is himself not tainted with corruption, organized crime nourishes in Chicago. Republicans frequently charge that the underworld is protected by members of Arvey's organization. The Kefauver Senate committee called Chicago "a focal point for the activities of organized criminals...
...dollar. In 1933 he founded Barium Steel. In 1938, his investment firm was booted out for good, after investigation showed that he had violated Exchange rules by juggling his books. Joe Sisto then concentrated on the steel business with the financial help of his longtime friend, New Jersey Underworld Boss Abner ("Longie") Zwillman...