Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Citizen's Committee of Massachusetts received a confidential survey covering the gambling problem in the state. A progress report on a more extensive survey being conducted for the committee, its main purpose is to determine if nationally notorious gambling-racketeering elements do, in fact, carry on or control organized gambling activities in Massachusetts, comparable to the known operations in the New York metropolitan area, the greater Miami area, Chicago and environs, and in California. The evidence seems to point in this direction...
Whether or not local off-track horse betting is tied in with national syndicates depends on whether or not local bookies have access to the Capone-controlled "wire services," vital to the continued operations of gambling syndicates on an interstate, regional, or national basis. In the Citizens Committee report it is stated as axiomatic that, "without control of 'wire services' or other related telegraph and telephone service, syndicated gambling would break down into local 'small business'" which could be dealt with by local police if the police were so inclined to act. Before a Senate Investigating Committee last week, magnate...
...sports pool betting, recent investigators named the most active gambling centers as being New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. "There is also betting at ball parks in Detroit, Cleveland, and Boston, the difference here being that local syndicates control the gambling in these latter three cities. The betting in the rest of the leagues is largely dominated by the Frank Erickson-Frank Costello group and its associates...
...which the people who gain from water shifts will have to pay the cost. This is the system used by the Bureau of Reclamation, an executive agency, when it builds irrigation ditches for farmers. As the Hoover Commission has proposed, a Review and Coordination Board, independent of direct Congressional control, would determine who paid for projects, and how much...
Perhaps Congress will eventually take this potentially valuable work away from the Engineers and transfer it to a unified control board that can give the country its money's worth. That would be the one sure way to bring down the price of pork...