CRIME: It Pays to Organize

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But Kefauver's major target is the racing wire. He is considering legislation to prohibit the interstate transmission of racing information other than results and the interstate transmission of bets by wire. He wants to give the Internal Revenue agents special power (or the gumption) to deal with Big Crimesters' calculatedly vague accounting.

Estes Kefauver has no notion that all gambling can or should be prohibited. He likes a quiet game of stud poker himself. And most U.S. citizens would hate to give up the right to lose—or the hope of winning—a fast buck. But it would be nice if Estes Kefauver could arrange to have it run by a nicer set of fellows.