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Word: vilest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President William Green: "I am going to tell you today that the head of one of your big international unions was sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years and six months for white slavery. . . . The man I mean is George Scalise ... a criminal of the vilest type." Thick & fast followed Pegler accusations that Mr. Scalise was a racketeer, had acquired a 27-room mansion out of his savings. "What have the New York police and District Attorney Tom Dewey's investigators to say as to his activities in the last ten or 15 years?" hissed Mr. Pegler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Racketeer Scalise | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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