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Dewey became the No. 1 racket buster, but was enlarged greatly by his association with Mr. Dewey, who trusted him completely with sensitive information. Mr. Dewey was no babe in the woods of organized crime when he was appointed Special Prosecutor in New York in 1935 to investigate the rackets and their political protectors. Although only 33 years old, he had made his mark as an Assistant United States Attorney by sending Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler, a major mob figure, to Federal prison for income tax evasion, and had built a similar case against Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer which was pending against that racketeer at the time of his murder.
His eyes held hers as if by force. Now she knew why Betty Cook feared him like death. This man Luciano was full of pent-up force, and serpentine malevolence seemed to strike from his stone-like face. Nancy got out of there as soon as she could. She said she was sorry, she had to be getting along. She forgot to take her change from the cashier, and she dashed down into the Eighty-sixth Street subway entrance and hurried aboard a train. After the train door was closed, she looked back, out the window.
Men stampeded in droves after common stocks and preferred blondes, and Nancy, like everything else, was going big. There were big sugar daddies galore, big butter and egg men, big brokers, big bootleggers; and Nancy, who rated as a big blonde, had her telephone number ready for all. It is appalling to think of the years of prison eligibility that were incurred by the big friends of willing young Nancy, for the statutory crime of rape upon a child. She gave no warning that she was jail bait. Nancy had the dancing freshness of youth, but already there was a deep-breasted maturity about her, and a voluptuous fire that she got from a Polish mother.
