Boardwalk Gangster

by Tim Newark

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  For newspaper articles consulted see Notes.

  INDEX

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  Adonis, Joe

  Cuba and

  exile of Luciano and

  funeral of Luciano and

  as killer

  Murder, Inc. and

  prejudice against

  visits in prison by

  wealth of

  William O’Dwyer and

  World War II and

  Agano hippodrome incident

  Aiello, Joe

  Akers, Herbert

  Al Capone (movie)

  Alascia, James

  alcohol. See also Prohibition

  Alfieri, Paul

  aliases

  alliance, transatlantic

  Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory (AMGOT)

  Amalgamated Clothing Workers

  AMGOT. See Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory

  amidone

  Anastasia, Albert

  Al Mineo crime family and

  Cuba and

  drugs and

  as enforcer

  exile of Luciano and

  as killer

  Murder, Inc. and

  murder of

  Normandie and

  Thomas Dewey and

  World War II and

  Anastasio, Tony

  Anderson, Jack

  Anslinger, Harry J.

  book by

  China and

  Cuba and

  investigation of Luciano by

  Kefauver Committee inquiry and

  Antanori slayings

  Apalachin gathering

  Arias, Antonio

  Aricidiaco

  arrests

  beating of Luciano and

  Cuba and

  drugs and

  felonious assault and

  payroll robbery and

  summary of

  of Vito Genovese

  Attell, Abe

  Baesell, Norman F.

  bail

  Bailey, Carl E.

  Bakir (SS) (ship)

  Balitzer, Mildred. See also Curtis, Mildred

  Balitzer, Pete

  Balsam, Louis

  Baltic (ship)

  bank employees, murder of

  Barbara, Joseph

  Barbizon-Plaza Hotel

  Bastia (ship)

  Batista, Fulgencio

  beatings

  Beatty, Warren

  Bender, Tony

  Bendix, Joe

  Benny, Dopey

  Berger, Meyer

  Berkman, Meher The Big Bankroll. See Rothstein, Arnold

  The Big Heat (movie)

  Big Six

  billiards

  Billy Bathgate (movie)

  Biondo, Joe

  birth of Lucky Luciano

  Black Hand

  Blumenthal, Louis

  Boccia, Ferdinand

  Bogart, Humphrey

  bombs

  Bonanno, Joseph

  Apalachin gathering and

  Castellammarese War and

  Cuba and

  Prohibition and

  Salvatore Maranzano and

  Sicily and

  World War II and

  bonding

  Bonventre, John

  bookers. See also Prostitution

  bootlegging

  The Brain. See Rothstein, Arnold

  Brando, Marlon

  Breitel, Charles

  Brewster, Sidney W.

  Bridges, Harry

  Brocolli, Albert “Cubby”

  Brooks, Danny

  Brotherhood of Evil (Sondern)

  Brown, “Cokie” Flo

  Browne, George

  Buchalter, Louis “Lepke”

  in hiding

  Prohibition and

  racketeering and

  syndication and

  Bugsy (movie)

  Bund, German American

  Burr, Pauline

  Buscetta, Tommaso

  Buster from Chicago

  butchers, strikes and

  Button, Roland

  Cadillacs

  Caesar, Julius

  Calandro, Antonio

  Calandro, Sylvestro

  Calderone, Antonio

  Callace, Frank

  Campbell, Rodney

  Canada

  The Canary That Sang: The Valachi Papers (Maas)

  Cantellops, Nelson

  Capone, Al “Scarface”

  Castellammarese War and

  flamboyance of

  history of

  movies and

  “peace conference” and

  tax evasion and

  Capone, Ralph

  cards

  Carisi, Joseph

  Carmen, Jewel

  Carter, Eunice H.

  Caruso, Frank

  Casablanca Club

  Casablanca Conference

  casinos

  Castellammarese War

  Castro, Fidel

  Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau

  Cerra, Mike (alias of Sal Vizzini)

  Chibas, Eduardo

  Chicago Club

  Chicago Mob

  China

  Christian Democrat party

  Churchill, Winston

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

  Ciannelli, Eduardo

  CIC. See Counterintelligence Corps

  Clinton Correctional Facility

  Clooney, George

  clothes

  clothing industry

  cocaine

  Cockeyed Louis. See Weiner, “Cockeyed” Louis

  Cohn, Harry

  Cokie Flo. See Brown, “Cokie” Flo

  Cold War

  Cole, Henry

  Coll, Vincent “Mad Dog”

  Colosimo, “Big Jim”

  The Combination

  The Commission

  Communists. See also Cold War

  Conroy, E. E.

  Corbo, Joseph

  Corleone, Michael

  corruption

  Costello, Frank

  Arnold Rothstein and

  beating of Luciano and

  business and

  clothes and

  Cuba and

  decline in power of

  discretion of

  drugs and

  exile of Luciano and

  history of

  Kefauver Committee inquiry and

  support from while in Italy

  Thomas Dewey and

  as undesirable

  World War II and

  The Cotton Club (movie)

  Count Duval. See Miller, Robert V.

  Counterintelligence Corps (CIC)

  cr
aps games

  Crieg Spector & Citron

  Croswell, Edward

  Cuba

  curfews

  Curtis, Mildred. See also Balitzer, Mildred

  cyanide rumor

  Dallesandro, Joe

  Damon, Matt

  Dannemora

  Danton, Ray

  Davis, Bette

  death of Lucky Luciano

  DeBrino, Bob

  Del Grazio, August

  Deleglise, Laurent

  Democratic convention

  deportation

  Depp, Johnny

  Dewey, Thomas E.

  commutation of sentence by

  efforts of to prosecute mafia

  Longy Zwillman on

  as nemesis

  prostitution trial and

  retrial and

  war record and

  Dewey Law

  Di Cicco, Pasquale “Pat,”

  Di Giorgio, Joe

  Di Marzo, Nick

  Diamond, Barlow M.

  Diamond, Eddie

  Diamond, Jack “Legs”

  Arnold Rothstein and

  beating of Luciano and

  Germany and

  movie about

  prosecution of

  Diamond, Joseph G.

  Dickey, Orange C.

  distilleries

  Domingo, Sebastiano

  Don Calo (Vizzini Calogero)

  Dorsey, Tommy

  Dose, Giuseppe

  drug trafficking

  after World War II,

  Arnold Rothstein and

  arrest for

  Cuba and

  Germany and

  Hollywood and

  lack of power in

  rumor of efforts to disrupt

  Dufresne (undercover agent)

  Dunn, Johnny “Cockeye”

  Durante, Jimmy

  Duval, Count. See Miller, Robert V.

  Dwyer, “Big Bill,”

  Eastman, Monk

  Eboli, Pat

  Eboli, Thomas

  Eisenberg, Dennis

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Elaine Produce and Food Company

  Ellenstein, Jack

  ELVIS (Voluntary Army for Sicilian Independence)

  Emby Distributing Company

  Enratta. See also Green, Charles

  extortion

  Fabrizzo, Tony

  Fach, Albert

  Fascist League of North America

  Fascists

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). See also Special Intelligence Service

  Cuba and

  death of Luciano and

  The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano and

  The Luciano Story and

  prostitution and

  transfer of Luciano and

  World War II and

  Feder, Sid

  Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN)

  China and

  continued investigation by

  Cuba and

  formation of

  Henry and Theresa Rubino and

  Nick Gentile and

  Vito Genovese and

  Federal Narcotics Control Board

  Ferro, Vito Cascio

  For a Few Dollars More (movie)

  Fischetti brothers

  Fishburne, Laurence

  A Fistful of Dollars (movie)

  Fitts, Burton

  Five Points Gang

  Flegenheimer, Arthur (Dutch Schultz)

  Arnold Rothstein and

  Diamond brothers and

  Prohibition and

  Thomas Dewey and

  as undesirable

  floating games

  Florita, Giovanni

  Fogan, Frank

  Ford, Henry

  Ford, Martha

  Fredericks, Jimmy

  French, Philip

  French Connection

  Friddi, Lercara

  Fulton Fish Market

  funeral

  Gable, Clark

  Gage, Nicholas

  Gagliano, Tom

  Galante, Carmine

  Gambino, Carlo

  gambling

  Gambon, Michael

  gangs, tenements and

  garbage strikes

  Garcia, Andy

  Gardner, Ava

  garment district

  Garofalo, Frank

  gay prostitution

  Genovese, Vito

  arrest of

  beating of Luciano and

  Castellammarese War and

  conviction of

  Cuba and

  Gosch movie and

  Joe “the Boss” Masseria and

  Lucky Luciano (Rosi) and

  power grab by

  prostitution and

  stolen goods after WWII and

  Thomas Dewey and

  tomb of

  Gentile, Nick

  Castellammarese War and

  the Commission and

  drugs and

  killing of Joe “the Boss” Masseria and

  Prohibition and

  Vito Genovese and

  German American Bund

  Germany. See also World War II

  Giannini, Eugene

  Gigante, Vincent “the Chin,”

  Gino (nephew)

  Giordano, Henry

  Girls’ Service League

  Giuliano, Salvatore

  Glassman, Barnett

  The Godfather (Puzo)

  The Godfather series (movies)

  Goebbels, Joseph

  Goering, Hermann

  Goodman Hat Company

  Gordon, “Waxey”

  Arnold Rothstein and

  bombing of Lansky and Siegel and

  death of men working for

  indictment of

  Thomas Dewey and

  Gosch, Martin

  Graham, Bill

  Grand Hotel et Des Palmes

  grand larceny

  Grau San Martín, Ramón

  Great Depression

  Great Meadow Correctional Facility

  Green, Charles

  Green, William

  Guerin, Joseph K.

  guns

  Gurfein, Murray I.

  prostitution investigation and

  World War II and

  Haffenden, Charles R.

  FBI interest in

  Frank Costello and

  recruitment of mobsters by

  Halley, Rudolph

  Hammer, Richard

  hand ballet

  Handbook on Politics and Intelligence Services (SIS)

  Hard Tack Social Slub

  heart condition

  Hecht, Ben

  Heller, Abie “the Jew,”

  heroin. See also Drug trafficking

  Higgins, Jack

  Hill, Virginia

  Hinkes, Max

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hollywood

  The Honored Society (Lewis)

  Hoodlum (movie)

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  deal with Navy and

  gambling and

  Kefauver Committee inquiry and

  Kilgallen newspaper column and

  lack of antagonism for

  Louis Lepke and

  horses, poisoning of

  Hot Springs, Arkansas

  Hotel Nacional

  Howe, George

  Hughes, Howard

  Hyman, William

  IATSE. See International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

  ICPC. See International Criminal Police Commission

  illegal immigrants

  immigration

  income tax evasion

  informing

  interest rates

  International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

  International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC)

  International Longshoremen’s Association

  Irish immigrants

  Irish North Siders

  Isgro, Joe

/>   Italian immigrants

  Italian Lottery

  Italy

  deportation to

  drug trafficking and

  emigration from

  invasion of Sicily and

  post-World War II,

  Iwo Jima

  Jackson, “Humpty,”

  Jacobs, Jesse

  James Street Gang

  Japan

  Jean, Dago

  Jewish immigrants

  Joe the Boss (Joe Masseria)

  killing of

  Salvatore Maranzano and

  Thomas Dewey and

  Umberto Valenti and

  Vito Genovese and

  working for

  Joe’s Elbow Room Restaurant

  Joesten, Joachim

  Jordan, Thelma

  junkies

  Kane, Patrick

  Katcher, Leo

  Kefauver, Estes

  Kefauver Committee hearings

  Frank Costello and

  George White testimony during

  overview of

  Rome and

  Kelly, Patsy

  Kelly, Paul

  Kennedy, Philip

  kidnapping

  Kilgallen, Dorothy

  Ko-Ka-Mo Joe

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kuhn, Fritz

  La Gaipa, Charles

  La Guardia, Fiorello

  La Mantia, Vito

  La Marr, Barbara

  La Tempa, Peter

  Lacey, Robert

  Lagana, Mike

  Lane, Charles (alias)

  Lansky, Meyer

  Arnold Rothstein and

  beating of Luciano and

  Big Six and

  birth name of

  Bugsy Siegel and

  Cuba and

  defense of as child

  exile of Luciano and

  gambling and

  Germany and

  Gosch movie and

  Kefauver Committee inquiry and

  as leading associate

  Maranzano killing and

  Morello killing and

  Normandie and

  Rome and

  syndication and

  teenage gang and

  Vito Genovese and

  Waxey Gordon and

  World War II and

  Lansky Food Company

  Lanza, Colleen

  Lanza, Joe “Socks,”

  Lanza, Mario

  Lasky, Jesse

  “The Last Days of Lucky Luciano” (Anderson)

  The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano (Hammer)

  controversy over

  gang war and

  Germany and

  Morello killing and

  Operation Underworld and

  Laura Keene (ship)

  League of Nations

  Leary, Jim

  Legion of Merit

  Lepke, Louis

  in hiding

  Prohibition and

  racketeering and

  syndication and

  Lescari, Mike