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Hells Kitchens Irish Mob
1,891 wordsHells Kitchen is a working class neighborhood on the west side of Midtown, Manhattan. At the turn of the century the area was largely an Irish and Germen enclave. Throughout the early years of the twentieth century, the most common activity for a young male was to be in some sort of gang. The most powerful of the early Hells Kitchen gangs was the Gophers, named so because they usually met in tenement basements. It was mostly made up of Irish toughs from the West Side. At their peak in 1907, ther...
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Bugs Moran Johnny Torrio
1,544 words... temper stayed under control for about five weeks. But then, Joe Howard, a small-time thug, assaulted Capone's friend Jack Guzik when Guzik turned him down for a loan. Guzik told Capone and Capone tracked Howard down in a bar. Howard had the poor judgment to call Capone a dago pimp and Capone shot Howard dead. William H. McSwiggin, called "the hanging prosecutor, " decided to get Capone, but in spite of his diligence he wasn't able to win a conviction, mostly because eyewitnesses suddenly dev...
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Legitimate Businesses Mafia Organization People
1,190 wordsThe Mafia started early in the 9 th century. This was the period in which the Arab forces occupied Sicily. Sicilians needed a place to escape to. The word Mafia means refuge in Arab language. The Normans invaded a Sicily in the 11 th century. Once again they were forced to work for these invaders as slaves. The only way to escape this was to hide in the hills of the island. When Sicily was invaded the refuges were pursued just as every time that they had been invaded before. These people in the ...
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On The Waterfront And High Noon
1,357 words... of the law, and true good is shown instead to be in the in the individual character and his actions. Society is clear-cut, black and white, good and bad. It is a deliberately anti-intellectual film, emphasised by the constant repetition of how smart it is to give in and run. The gratification of traditional ideals is complete when the obvious rightness of siding with Kane is supplanted by the desire to bring big business to town. It just seems so narrow minded and egotistic that not one pers...
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Big Jim Police Department
1,024 wordsFor several years after Capone arrived in Chicago, things were comparatively quiet among the various gangs that had carved up Chicago's rackets. Nonetheless, reform-minded William E. Dever succeeded the spectacularly corrupt Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson. With city government nominally in the hands of an earnest reformer, the daily process of payoffs and corruption became more complicated. Torrio and Capone decided to put many operations out of the city into the suburb of Cicero, where they could pu...
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Charles Luciano And The Mafia In America
1,549 wordsMost people think that the Mafia is obsolete in America but they it isnt. It still flourishes through out the states controlling parts of the Government. The members and head bosses just arent as public as they had been in the 1900 s. Now they are mostly underground to try from being broken up, and if heard of usually they assassinate or pay off whoever shall try to disturb there roles in life of there personal business dealings. All though not, the Sicilian-born gangster Salvatore Lucania, bett...
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Gangster Biography Of Arthur Flegenheimer
1,314 wordsArthur Flegenheimer 1902 - 1935 Born: August 6, 1902 in New York, United States Died: October 24, 1935 Occupation: Gangster Flegenheimer, Arthur (Aug. 6, 1902 - Oct. 24, 1935), gangster, better known as Dutch Schultz, was born in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City, and was the only son and elder of two children of Herman and Emma (Neu) Flegenheimer. His parents were German-Jewish immigrants. He grew up in a slum section of the Bronx, and went no further than the sixth grade in school, thoug...
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Upstate New York Millions Of Dollars
1,326 words... s responsible for the thefts, he declared war on Diamond's gang. The gang war claimed several casualties from both sides. Because he lived through numerous attempts on his life, Diamond became known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld. " For a while it looked like he was impossible to kill. But on December 19, 1931, Diamond was killed when two Schultz gunmen tracked him to upstate New York, burst into his hotel room, and repeatedly shot him. Schultz later told reporters that the dead gangs...
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Rival Gang Organized Crime
1,138 wordsAlphonsus Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. Capone quit school in the sixth grade at age fourteen. He became part of the notorious Five Points gang in Manhattan and worked in gangster Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn as a bouncer and bartender. While in New York Capone murdered two men and hospitalized a rival gang member, however he was tried for his crimes. With a reputation for a willingness to kill, Yale sent Capone to Chicago to work as a bodyguard. # Capone arrived in Ch...
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U S Attorney Dutch Schultz
1,929 wordsHell? s Kitchen is a working class neighborhood on the west side of Midtown, Manhattan. At the turn of the century the area was largely an Irish and Germen enclave. Throughout the early years of the twentieth century, the most common activity for a young male was to be in some sort of gang. The most powerful of the early Hell? s Kitchen gangs was the Gophers, named so because they usually met in tenement basements. It was mostly made up of Irish toughs from the West Side. At their peak in 1907, ...
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Secret Society Las Vegas
1,428 wordsHistory of the Mafia The origins of the secret society known as the Mafia are believed to be as old as the 9 th century. During that period the island of Sicily was occupied by Arab forces. The original inhabitants were oppressed, and needed places of refuge to escape to. The word Mafia means refuge in Arabic. When the Normans invaded Sicily in the 11 th century, the native tribes were once again oppressed and forced into labor on the large estates their rulers created. Once again, the only way ...
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M P H Tennis Ball
4,195 wordsIts Not Rocket Science, Its Racket Science Remember warm Sunday afternoons when everyone loaded into the car with the intention of spending some family time together? For me, being one of eight children, it was all too familiar. The entire trip was nothing but fighting over what we were going to get, and who got to pick the cereal. Once we got to the popular cereal isle my brothers, sisters, and I were in constant battle deciding between Cocoa Puffs and Trix. What did we end up with though? Kabo...
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Black And White Good And Bad
2,749 words? Much that characterised Hollywood in the 1950 s can be described as paradoxical and ambiguous due to anti-communist hysteria and the blacklist. ? How accurate is this statement in relation to two films of the 1950 s? A lot has been made of the suggested subtexts present in High Noon and On the Waterfront, that they reflect the experiences of Carl Foreman (the writer of High Noon) and Elia Kazan with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Foreman has openly assented to this, and Kazan h...
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One Of The Biggest Organized Crime
1,362 wordsWhen most people think of the Mafia they think, murderers and gamblers. But in fact the Mafia is more than just a bunch of wise guys sitting around gambling. For years organized crime families have provided for many and brought wealth to their communities. In the early years of America, organized crime helped pave a way for many of the American cities to grow to what they are today. Most of the families provide for more than one hundred people per community. Organized crime has become a world of...
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