Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
...Catholics we abominate and we condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...
Success went to Binaggio's head. He went to bigger men than he in the underworld, promised that if his man Forrest Smith was elected governor, the state would be thrown wide open to gambling, slots and betting. All Charlie wanted was $100,000 or so for the campaign. He got it. Said Jim Pendergast: "My God, how he spent that money. He was paying-as high as $50 for some of the boarding houses we used...
...easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who doesn't understand her. Escaping rebelliously, she becomes a cynical tart with a burlesque strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including Kent Smith, an honest but weak accountant, and David Brian, a pseudo-respectable gangland big shot with a taste for Etruscan vases...