In April 1941 John Arena, the editor of "La Tribuna," was shot to death in Chicago. Arena had been an American citizen for only six months at the time of his death. He had testified before Congress regarding spying activities of Ovra, the Fascist Italian secret police, who had been obtaining national defense secrets from industrial workers.

In October 1942 Associate Justice James F. Byrnes resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court to accept an appointment from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be director of the Economic Stabilization Board, a new authority created to attempt to contain wartime inflation.

In March 1949 Frank Costello, alleged New York City gangster, was described by the California Commission on Organized Crime as the "reputed head" of a nationwide $2 billion slot machine racket that invested millions in bribing public officials. His response was to deny that he was the...