diminishing of
George “the Rape Artist” Donohue and
Jimmy Hines and
Mafia and
muscle and
New York police
Tom Pendergast and
Patsy Conroys
Pendergast, James
background
death
political life
Pendergast, Mike
Pendergast, Thomas Joseph “T. J.”
Al Capone and
assuming Machine control
death/funeral
defending regime
downfall
gambling addiction
insurance legislation kickback
Johnny Lazia and
Lloyd Stark after
owning concrete industry
personality, style
power of
press attacking
Prohibition aiding
tax evasion plea/prison term
Pendergast Machine
booze/sex
bosses
controlling concrete industry
extortion
fall of
gambling
Johnny Lazia and
rise of
Phoenix Cereal Beverage Company
Pinkerton Agency
Pistol Local
Plug Uglies
Plunkitt, George Washington
police corruption (New York)
Andrew McLaughlin and
bootlegging protection
Chile Acuna revealing
“doctor’s racket,”
“landlady racket,”
money trails
Municipals vs. Metropolitans
New York Nineteenth Century
rackets revealed
Seabury Investigation
Thomas M. Farley and
Vivian Gordon murder
police profession
Irish attraction to
King Mike’s resentment
policy rackets
political bosses, Irish
dawn of
emergence, reasons
immigrants supporting
local politics as king
organization structure
unofficial bards
political corruption
as best mob investment
reform
political corruption (Chicago)
acceptance
Big Jim O’Leary and
boodling scheme
Coughlin-Kenna and
First Ward Ball and
Mike McDonald and
origins
political corruption (New Orleans)
political corruption (New York)
Big Tim Sullivan and
bootlegging protection
Boss Tweed and
Isaiah Rynders and
James K. Polk election
Jimmy Hines and
Jimmy Walker and
John Morrissey and
voting multiple times technique
Polk, James K.
Poole, William
Port of New York
attracting criminal element
Father John Corridan and
ILA membership
Waterfront Hearings
World War II boon
potato famine. See Great Potato Famine
precinct captain, defined
Pringle, Eunice
Prohibition
as assault on liberty
defined
Eighteenth Amendment
empowering gangsters
end of, changing Mob
ethnic mob wars
as “glory years,”
immediate effectiveness of
imposition of
repeal of
violence turning tide against
See also bootlegging; specific bootleggers
prostitution
Al Capone and
Boss Tweed and
Chicago
Coughlin-Kenna defense fund
Danny Lyons and
Fanny Sweet and
Five Points
French Quarter (1870s)
Kate Townsend and
NYPD scam
protection
Provenzano family
pseudonym use
The Public Enemy
Puzo, Mario
Quincy Street Boys
Quinn, Joseph
Quinn John Phillip
racket, defined
racketeering origins
Ragano, Frank
Ragen’s Colts
Rao, Joey
rat-killing
religious intolerance. See anti-Catholic bigotry Rico, H. Paul
Riis, Jacob A.
Ritter, Mugsy
Roach Guard
Roberts, Kiki
Robinson, Mary. See Sweet, Fanny
Roosevelt, Franklin
Al Smith and
attacking corruption
hiring Samuel Seabury
initiating Prohibition repeal
Joe Kennedy and
New Deal
reform under way
roots, of Mob
Great Potato Famine
Old Country beginnings
Vale of Tears and
Roselli, Johnny
Rosen, Nig
Rothstein, Arnold
as bail bondsman
Big Tim Sullivan and
Black Sox Scandal and
bodyguards
heroin trade
Jack “Legs” Diamond and
monikers
murder
murder investigation
power source
vacuum after
Rudensky, Morris “Red,”
Russo, Gus
Russo, Joe
Ryan, Joseph P.
annual dinner and
Association
Bill McCormack and
conviction
description
dispensing union charters
Eddie McGrath and
empire vision
formative years
George “the Rape Artist” Donahue and
ILA presidency
ILA resignation
ILWU and
Jimmy Walker and
local kickbacks
management style
1951 strike against
notorious mobsters indebted to
power control
“president for life,”
prison
rise/fall
Squint Sheridan and
strike challenge
Waterfront Hearing testimony
Ryan, Piker
Ryan, Richie
Rynders, Isaiah
Sadie the Goat
Saint Tammany
Saints vs. Mullin
Salemme, Frank “Cadillac Frank,”
Salerno, Fat Tony
Saratoga Club House
Saratoga Springs (NY)
Scaffidi, Anthony
Scarface
Scarface, Shame of the Nation
Schofield, William E.
Schulberg, Bud
Schultz, Dutch “the Dutchman,”
Atlantic City conference
attempts on life
beating indictments
George Weinberg and
Jack “Legs” Diamond and
Jimmy Hines and
murder
Owney Madden and
in policy rackets
propositioning cops as killers
Thomas Dewey and
Vincent Coll and
Seabury, Samuel
background
Roosevelt hiring
targeting corruption
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
Shannon, Kenny
Sheeran, Francis “the Irishman,”
Sheridan, Andrew “Squint,”
Sheridan, Billy
Shillelagh Laws
shillelaghs
Shir
t Tails
Siege at West Ninetieth Street
Siegel, Bugsy
Sinatra, Frank
Smith, Al
Solomon, King
South Side Clubs Association (SSCA)
South Side O’Donnells
Spillane, Mickey (author)
Spillane, Mickey (mobster)
arrests
Eddie McGrath and
inheriting rackets
Jacob Javits Convention Center and
Jimmy Coonan war
Joseph Sullivan and
Last of Gentlemen Gangsters
leaving Hell’s Kitchen
Madison Square Garden and
marriage
Mickey Spillane (author) and
murder/funeral
popularity
refusing to talk
sense of history
snatching Mafiosi
taking on Italians
Tom Devaney and
Zicardi kidnapping
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Stanley, Theresa
Stark, Lloyd C.
Steffans, Lincoln
Stein, Charles “Ruby,”
stevedores
Stevenson, Adlai
Store, the
strikebreakers
James Farley and
profile
sucker
“…born every minute” origin
term origin
Sullivan, Eddie
Sullivan, Margaret
Sullivan, Paddy
Sullivan, Timothy “Big Tim,”
Arnold Rothstein and
bootlegging link
capital “S” System from
Charles Murphy and
Coughlin-Kenna and
death
decline, death
as Dry Dollar Sullivan
Eastman gang and
ethnic outreach
formative years
political life
Prohibition and
the System and
wealth
Sullivan, Yankee
Sullivan Joseph “Mad Dog,”
Sullivan-Considine vaudeville circuit
Swan, Bill
Swanson, Gloria
Sweet, Fanny
Syndicate
eliminating Irish mobsters
multiethnic governing body
shutting out Irish
System, the
capital “S” in
infiltration of, by Mob
Lincoln Steffens and
Tague, Peter F.
Tammany Hall
Al Smith and
attack on
Beau James and
Big Tim Sullivan and
bootlegging cooperation
Boss Tweed and
Croker/Chicago-support parade
grand sachem lineage
Irish entry into
Isaiah Rynders and
Jimmy Hines and
Jimmy Walker and
John F. Curry and
as man behind the man
organization structure
organized crime model and
origin
political structure
racketeering and
Richard Croker and
as Tiger
Tassiello, Rickey
temperance movement
Tennes, Mont
Terrible Touhys
Third Municipality
Thrasher, Frederick
tommy gun
Torrio, “Papa John”
Al Capone and
Atlantic City conference
Torrio, “Papa John”
bootlegging setup/arrest
Bugs Moran gang after
Dean O’Banion and
early years/family background
as great accommodator
racketeering
retirement
Touhy, Roger
Touhys, Terrible
Townsend, Kate
Trafficante, Santo
True Blue Americans
Tulsa murder
Tuohy, William J.
turkeys, for needy/holidays
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,”
Tweed Ring
United Irishmen
Vaccarelli, Paolo Antonini. See Kelly, Paul
Valachi, Joseph M.
Vale of Tears
Valley gang
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Volstead, Andrew
Volstead Act; See also Prohibition
Walker, Jimmy
Betty Compton and
corruption revealed
elected NYC mayor
personality, style
resignation
Tammany Hall and
on Vincent Coll
Walker, William H.
Wallace, Danny
Walsh, Barney
Walsh, Daniel L.
Walsh, Hoggy
Walsh, Tom “Fatty,”
Ward, Mikey
ward boss, defined
ward heelers, defined
Warren Commission
waterfront
commercial bounty
gangster control
hiring bosses
Irish-Italian battle for
jobs
tribute system
World War II boon
See also Port of New York
Waterfront Hearings
Weeks, Kevin
Weinberg, George
Weiss, Hymie
West Side O’Donnells
West Virginia primary
Westies
dismemberment practice
end of
internal discontent
Mafia alliance sealed
membership
name origin
Paul Castellano and
reputation
RICO case against
women running
See also Coonan, James Michael “Jimmy”; Featherstone, Mickey
Wheeler, Roger
Whelan, Grover
Whitehead, Harold “Whitey,”
Whyos
criminal activity
Danny Driscoll and
Danny Lyons and
leaders
members
name origin
politicians benefiting from
prostitution ring
racketeering
Williams, Florence
Winchell, Walter
Winter, Howie
aligning Mullin/Winter Hill gangs
put away
race-fixing scheme
reputation
taking over Winter Hill Gang
Winter Hill Gang
Buddy McLean and
Bulger becomes boss
Charlestown boys war
Frank Benjamin killing
Hughes brothers and
McLaughlin brothers and
race-fixing scheme
See also Bulger, James “Whitey”
Witness Protection Program
Wojciechowsky, Earl. See Weiss, Hymie Wolf, Mark L.
Wolf Hearings
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
World Jai Alai (WJA)