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...particular case he ... had a very beautiful weapon and was . . . prepared to do the work of a gunman. He was charged on two other occasions with doing the work of a gunman and, somehow or other, got out of it. Now I commit him to the penitentiary for one year...
Mostly his enemies in the party remembered Jimmy's attempt to dump Harry Truman in favor of Eisenhower at Philadelphia last year. "We can't very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name Roosevelt means something. The people here will fill a ballpark to see a Roosevelt-or a Clark Gable or a Lana Turner, of a Frankenstein. But they won't vote for them." Most of the Truman professionals preferred California's E. George Luckey, the swashbuckling Imperial Valley cattleman...
Last week, greying, hoarse-voiced, 58-year-old Frank Costello was fast becoming a figure of U.S. legend. Millions of newspaper readers considered him a kind of master criminal, shadowy as a ghost and cunning as Satan, who ruled a vast, mysterious and malevolent underworld and laughed lazily...
...Helis, the "Golden Greek" (who demanded 20,000 cases of choice Scotch for security), Costello and Kastel bought control of Britain's Whiteley Distillery, producers of House of Lords and King's Ransom Scotch. The board of directors agreed to pay Costello ?5,000 ($24,400) a year simply for "frequenting first-class hotels and restaurants and asking to be supplied with the company's brands." But the slot machines were Costello's gold mine...
...gross profits of the slots, calculated at $600 per machine a year, brought in an annual profit of $3,000,000. But in 1934. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...