Many a racketeer last week viewed with alarm a reversion to horse-&-buggy justice when a Manhattan jury pointed Charles ("Lucky") Lucania and eight of his lieutenants toward stiff jail sentences by convicting them, not on an oblique income tax-evasion charge but directly for doing illicit business.
For three weeks prostitutes and bawds had paraded through the courtroom, while Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey questioned them on the details of their occupation (TIME, May 25). No old-fashioned vice trial was this. The prosecutor had been appointed at the request of New York's...
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