Jr Jr: 7350 books

Charles Albero was in trouble for truancy by the time he was nine years old. He was sent to the Elmira Reformatory in the 1920s. His first active prison sentence occurred in 1929. Albero was in a Lucky Luciano inspired multinational drug ring that operated from 1941-1945. Broken up in '45 the ring's...

Meyer Shapiro and his brothers, Irving and Willy, were tutored by Irish American hoodlum Legs Diamond. Aside from Willie Shapiro all of them died the same year, 1931. Diamond was gunned down in Albany in December. Meyer was found dead in a Lower East Side tenement with a single bullet wound in his...

Verne Sankey had a job as a railroad engineer in Canada before he became a bootlegger and then a kidnapper. Born in Pottawatamie County, Iowa, Sankey lived in South Dakota. Later he maintained a hideout near Mitchell, SD where he kept one of his captives away from the law. Sankey was caught in Chicago...

Jimmy Hoffa was tried in Nashville, Tennessee in December 1962. Hoffa was indicted for violating the Taft-Hartley Act when after he took money from a Detroit transportation in return for settling a labor dispute. Before this case the Teamsters boss had beaten federal government raps on three successive...

The fire at the Park Avenue studios of Pathe' film company snuffed out the lives of ten persons. Nineteen others were injured in a disaster that might have been prevented had the building been equipped with an adequate sprinkler system. Following the tragedy a grand jury inquest revealed that...

Eduardo Aronica was part of the Carlo Gambino crime organization in New York City. Aronica got his start in illicit, untaxed, unregistered liquor stills. Stills operated by Eduardo and his cronies were discovered by government agents during sweeps conducted in 1938 and 1939. Aronica was prosecuted...

John "Sonny" Franzese was a rising star in the Profaci-Magliocco/Colombo family crime organization. Born in Naples, Sonny was raised by his bakery owner father in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. By 1965 he was the fastest ascending Cosa Nostra leader in the underworld. A Newsday article...

Angelo Amico was a significant organized crime boss in Rochester and western New York during the mid 20th century and after. One newspaper article described him as part of the "new leadership" among mobsters. In one of his trials he was indicted for extorting gambling revenue from sixteen...

John "Poppa John" Priziola was a lynchpin Mafioso in the annals of Detroit, Michigan crime. He was notorious as a receiver of narcotics for a heroin smuggling syndicate that thrived in the mid twentieth century. His crimes and illicit activities were a focus of the McClellan U.S. Senate...

Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist at the studio he regularly called The Factory. Near Union Square the date was June 3, 1968. Warhol was busy opening his mail when the woman walked in dressed in a trench coat. She had a loaded weapon in one of its pockets. As usual the place was bustling...

It's a summary of what occurs during a routine traffic stop of members of the general public. It also contains a list of things you should and should not do before, during, and after a traffic stop. This list is not all inclusive, that would be too vast, but it does cover the most common occurrences.

The Gambino and Bonanno crime families struggled over the mozzarella cheese business in Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. An FBI sting operation in Buffalo, New York began the unraveling of a Gambino family operation that smuggled heroin into the United States from Milan,...

Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

A smart and witty take on strategy . . . an essential business topic Every day, millions of professionals around the world discuss strategy, and they assume that everyone else in the room defines "strategy" the same way. But they don't. Howell J. Malham Jr. has created a simply designed...