"He’s a windbag who a dumb broad has played for a sucker."
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About William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies.
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Nucky Johnson
Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson (1883-1968) was an Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss, a Sheriff of Atlantic County, New Jersey, a businessman, a philanthropist and a crime boss, who was the leader of the corrupt political machine and criminal organization of the city from the 1910s up until his conviction and imprisonment for tax evasion on 1941.
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