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Showing posts with label Prohibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prohibition. 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...
05 November 2021

Author discusses Polly Adler bio, 'Madam'

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In this interview by Gerald Howard for CUNY's Leon Levy Center for Biography, biographer Debby Applegate discusses her just-released boo...
24 April 2020

Owney Madden dies at Hot Springs, Arkansas

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On this date in 1965... NY Daily News. Owen "Owney" Madden, once a gangland power in New York City, died of lung disease in ...
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29 October 2019

Intimate family portrait, detailed Mafia history

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[Disclaimer: The author provided me with several revisions of Colorado's Carlino Brothers before publication. I contributed edit sugge...
12 September 2019

'Death Valley' end for ambitious gangster

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Old pal of 'Clutching Hand' put on the spot in Brooklyn New York Daily News On this date in 1931... Scores of afternoon prod...
14 July 2019

Maranzano-focused Informer issue taking shape

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The August 2019 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement will focus exclusively on Prohibition Era Mafia leader...
19 May 2019

The Pittsburgh machine gun murder that wasn't

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'The Big Gorilla' may have been killed with his own shotgun On this date in 1927... Lamendola A Pittsburgh booze racketeer ...
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24 January 2019

Torrio surrenders Chicago rackets after ambush

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On this date in 1925... Chicago rackets boss Johnny Torrio, at liberty before beginning a nine-month sentence for Prohibition violation...
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16 September 2018

The Unsolved Murder of Officer Edward Riphon

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While researching my latest book, Murder Capital , one of the astounding facts I discovered was that in Madison, Wisconsin’s 170-year histo...