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reefer man and you were a "muggle" smoker, marijuana (Holmes, 1992 and
Payne, 2000). These and other consensual crimes were organized on a scale that
led to fierce and violent confrontations between the groups.
By the end of WW II, many returning veterans were ready to terminate
the rule of the gangsters and the crimes that were damaging the progressive
Dallas business climate. World War II veterans ran for office in the 1946
elections. Several wanted the city's top law enforcement jobs, especially the
county's highest criminal justice offices, sheriff and district attorney. Will
Wilson and Henry M. Wade ran for the district attorney's office. Wilson was an
SMU graduate and Wade a University of Texas law school graduate and former
F.B.I. agent. Wilson won the election but made Wade his chief prosecutor. In
1950, when Wilson moved successfully into state politics, Wade took over as
D.A...... for the next thirty-five years. In the same 1946 election Steve Guthrie,
another veteran, defeated R.A. "Smoot" Schmidt who had held the sheriffs
position since 1932.
They had their work laid out for them. Gambling, though illegal, was
wide-open and anyone could gamble or buy illegally sold liquor throughout
Dallas. The best known of the gamblers was Lester (Benny) Binion. For many
years it seemed that Binion could not be put out of business. Whether it was his
careful planning or luck or the fact he had protection, is difficult to judge from14
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