Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welch: Mr. Anastos, I may be wrong in this, but, using an underworld phrase, you kind of give me the impression that you feel that this picture has become hot. Is that right...
...heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager...
...Other Side. Some Democrats were among those exposed. Irving Sherman, pal of onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer and of underworld big shots, was named as the former owner, under another name, of $336,800 in Yonkers stock. Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic Leader Irving Steingut, paid $250 for Yonkers stock later valued at $45,000. James J. Dunnigan, son of a onetime Democratic state senator who co-authored the New York pari-mutuel gambling law, bought control of the Buffalo Raceway on a loan, put his father on the payroll for a seven-year total...
...best way of combatting crime, he stated, is to inform the public about critical situations through the press, radio, and television. Properly Indignant civic groups would then put pressure on the underworld to halt its activities...
...stupendous rock called "The Blue Goddess." and some chiselers of another sort than Ambrose are interested in her. A foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist the diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor...