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Road, where he and his brothers collect art and lavishly entertain visiting mob chieftains. Those that didn't fade were mortally embarrassed by the subpoena servers. "They went around to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," complained Joe Adonis. "They made slurring remarks...
...whether they showed up or not, the mob chieftains left telltale signs everywhere. In city after city, the same pattern of far-flung enterprise and secret partnerships showed up. The committee found that Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis are busily engaged with dice games in New Jersey and roulette in Miami. Philadelphia's Dave Glass and Cleveland's Al Polizzi are partners in Miami Beach's Sands Hotel. New York's Frank Erickson shared the Colonial Inn in Hallandale, Fla. with Detroit's Mert Wertheimer; Cleveland's Tommy McGinty has "maybe...
Dummies & the Mob. Ostensibly, Continental was bought by Arthur ("Mickey") McBride for his son Edward, now a law student in Miami University. But son Edward proved to know nothing about the business. Mickey McBride is the multimillionaire who owns the Cleveland Browns football team. But, said the committee, Continental. is not controlled by Mickey McBride, either. It is controlled by "the gangsters who constitute the Capone syndicate...
Storm Warning (Warner). A traveling dress model (Ginger Rogers) stops off in a Southern town to visit her married sister (Doris Day). She hardly sets foot on the town's strangely dark and empty main street when she stumbles on a violent scene: a sheeted mob of Ku Klux Klansmen hauls a man out of jail, beats him, shoots him down on the sidewalk...
...positive side, the picture makes its prosecutor-hero a native son who argues pointedly, as many Southerners do, that the town must clean up its own mess if it wants to avoid interference from Washington and points north. The "outsider" who is killed by the mob is a crusading newsman who works for a paper no farther away than a large Southern city. Though they want to suppress the scandal, the town's respectable citizens are opposed to the Klan...