1674-6 Estes Kefauver MIAMI'S MILITARY occupat
resulted in a crackdown in
hoodlumtsm. and other form
had been winked at by police in
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demonstration of destroyin,
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seized in one of several raid>
„a! x the onset of the war.(Miami H
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ury 19. 194?, killed two ‘ween forty two mix-uta iturder.wOnctof ,l
THIS SPECTACULAR accid�u,a head on collision between the �L.unt-bot nd Orate Blossom Special
and the Sun Queen on Fch ` \
14�l the ii age was nnmediateh'Cute! ,t o .But the tcctduu est Pali as a result a
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MOST POPULAR trallic alp in Milli's history was �. •
tlm Ciaeker aformer hexer. �4t
Jimmy Sullivan. sm b a.
w•ho "ran" the nuersecuo❑ :it Southeast First Avenue ,
t t and First Street for ten years,front 1934 to 1944. During
` t this time Sullivan never made .+n arrest, but nobody
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complained about the way he ran lJimmy's korner" d
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"First and First, A favorite of old ladles, het helped
\ ' fi thousands of them across the .:ret, whistling traffic to �r
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_ a stop as they ambled across with his firm hand at an
elbow. In 1944 Sullivan ran for sheriff and won by an `
6 overwhelming majority, And in 1948 he was re-elected. V
1 • i• 0 although not with so great a majority. But all was not
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1 right and the newspapers 0. w ntSullivan appeared leaders had insisted A
<"* •" `r"tE story came out in July, 1950, leading to arrest eofd bo.
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1• '_t t' t - before the Senate Crime Investtgattng Committee, their faces to avoid ide
headed by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. The and the arrest of allege
�"" `� i sheriff, no longer smiling. admitted he had banked club, shown here in th.
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� $70000 between 1945 and 1949,although his salary or way to the "buzzard's
•x = that period was $10,000 a year. Later tried on federa
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charges of income tux evasion, Sullivan was freed y
` ' a jury, but the jury couldn't free him of the debt the
Internal Revenue Service said he owed. He was forced
to pay thousands of dollars to the government, m back
�', , —� taxes and penalties. Soundly defeated in attempts to
'� ,4YtI1 regain his political status. Sullivan was to spend the
rest of his fife an embittered person.accusing the news-
paprs,and especially the Miami /leTnld. for the blight
of his career. He died in 1969.(Miami Herald)
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