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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Record. As a prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in the policy, loan shark' and extortion rackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE G.O.P.: DEWEY | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...George Whitney '07, president of the New York Harvard Club, said, after a discussion with the house committee, that, in the future, the Club's mailing list would not be made available to either side in such a controversy as U.M.T. He admitted, however, that the list had been made available to the National Security Committee, owing to a practice dating back to the first World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-UMTers Denied Use Of University Clubs' Lists | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

Ninety minutes before the Varsity match Peroy's Freshmen make their bid for an undefeated season when they meet the Yale cubs in the Payne-Whitney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity and Yardling Fencers Meet Yale in Season's Finale | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

Yale's squash forces took the Crimson into camp on two fronts Saturday afternoon as its varsity triumphed by 6 to 3 while the Jayvees were scoring an 8 to 1 victory. The action took place in New Haven's Payne Whitney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Squash Teams Rap Varsity, 6-3, Stop Jayvees, 8-1 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Morgan Man. The House of Morgan got a new chairman, Russell C. Leffingwell, 69, a Morgan partner since 1923, a director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc. since its incorporation in 1940. He succeeded the late Thomas W. Lamont. President George Whitney, Morgan's operating head since 1940, continues in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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