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THOMAS C. MORAN Pittsburgh...
...York began to erupt with one scandal after another concerning his administration. His closest political sidekick, James J. Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...
Since both the Republican and Democratic parties are controlled by essentially the same financial groupings, Hallinan said ". . . it makes about as much difference to the average voter whether Eisenhower or Stevenson is elected as it did to the average New Yorker whether Al Capone or Bugs Moran ran the numbers racket...
Biology Student Jon Lindbergh, 20, second son of Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, docked at Hoboken, N.J., sporting a stubby beard. Jon was ship's biologist during the 87-day oceanographic cruise of the tug Kevin Moran, which scoured the Atlantic from New England to the Azores, covering 10,000 miles. Prize discovery, according to Columbia Geologist W. Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, was a mysterious submarine canyon, 250-300 ft. deep, winding 800 miles across the mid-ocean floor three miles below the surface...
...make money that way," Moran would say, shocked...