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Attorney's office. They were William Bernard Herlands, 30, chunky, pink-cheeked, piano-playing Columbia graduate who VT?.S to become his right-hand man; suave Jacob Joseph Rosenblum, 38, who sent Banker Jo- seph Harriman to jail and might have convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded...
Dewey's further racket strokes had been less spectacular and conclusive. He had kept his trial record perfect: 52 indictments, 52 convictions. Proceeding with extreme secrecy and caution, refusing to strike until he felt sure he had enough evidence to convict, he had made public beginnings against rackets in the trucking, garment, used-brick and poultry industries. Finding the notorious poultry racket apparently impregnable, he had succeeded in indicting its reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches...
...Luciano, Prosecutor Dewey was no more interested in policy gambling than he had been in prostitution. But though he never expected to wipe out prostitution, he did announce that he might abolish policy in the only way it ever could be abolished-by showing betters what a "crooked gyp racket...
Contracting-Day before his policy raids Prosecutor Dewey made his first public move, after a 13-month investigation, against an electrical contracting racket. Subpoenaed were the books of city power companies, of three trade associations, private contractors, and of a local of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (an A. F. of L. affiliate). A Dewey aide charged that the leaders of the union had, by violence aided a monopoly of electrical contracting which cost New York citizens $10,000,000 per year. Baking. Two days later Mr. Dewey closed in, after more than a year of sleuthing, on a baking...
Sometimes, as was indicated in the arrest of the bakery owner last fortnight, businessmen who want to keep competition down and prices up in spite of anti-trust laws organize it themselves, take racketeers as partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set out to give the nation its first complete courtroom exposition of the way such a racketeering outfit works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance...