Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
...beginning," according to Crime Prevention director Thomas J. Stokes of the Cambridge police. Although Harvard Square is one of the cleanest trading centers in Cambridge, Captain Stokes announced yesterday that his squad is out to mop up those bookies who still make a living here from students and other local betters...
...extent of local bookmaking is no secret. Square newsstands sell out their tipsheets with no trouble in winter as well as summer. No New England tracks open before mid-April, and there is no legal way to bet in Massachusetts on a Florida race. The answer, obviously, is illegal bookmaking...
...least another dozen local business men are suspected of meeting rent payments by accepting money from bookies and pick-up men who use their places of business to contact bettors and phone in wagers...