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Showing posts with label Gambling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gambling. Show all posts
05 December 2021

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 Debby Applegate Excerpt from Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (Doubleday, 2021)   From Chapter 6 - "Thumbs...
26 December 2019

Flamingo opens with three-day gala

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On this date in 1946... The Flamingo casino, financed in large part by underworld investments funneled through racketeer Benjamin ...
12 January 2019

Cali cops called for Caddy corpse

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Cleveland-connected killer confesses Petro On this date in 1969... On Sunday, Jan. 12, 1969, police found a dead man behind the whe...
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16 August 2018

'Dandy Phil' exits in his pajamas

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On this date in 1962... Shreveport Times Nancy Kemp, a private nurse caring for aging gambling racketeer Philip F. "Dandy Phil...
10 August 2018

Dallas gambling chief ends his own life

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On this date in 1932... Warren Diamond, fifty-five-year-old Prohibition-Era gambling czar of Dallas, Texas, ended his own life at his Hi...
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03 August 2018

Eight "Black Sox" players banned from baseball

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On this date in 1921... Landis (center) as he is appointed commissioner Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced on Au...
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05 June 2018

Buckshot finishes Tampa big shot

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On this date in 1950: James Lumia, businessman, gambling rackets boss and Tampa Mafia leader, was in his car, double-parked on 19th St...
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28 September 2017

White Sox players indicted for throwing Series

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On this date (Sept. 28) in 1920, eight players on the Chicago White Sox baseball team were indicted by a Cook County, Illinois, grand jury f...
10 June 2017

Youngstown racketeer Farah killed at his home

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On this date in 1961: Mike Farah, 56, was practicing his golf swing outside his Warren, Ohio, home, when gunshots from a gray-green Chevr...
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