Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (82 page)

floral business

formative years

gang member

gangster apprenticeship

Gene Geary and

Genna brothers and

hijacking booze

Hymie Weiss and

Italian appeasement

Italian dislike

John Duffy and

Johnny Torrio and

as killer

legacy

movie based on

murder/funeral

newspaper circulation war slugger

personality, style

political life

practical joker

protection master

singing waiter

Terry Druggan and

O’Brien, Carleton

O’Brien, Hugh

O’Brien, Hugh, Jr.

O’Brien, Jimmy

O’Brien, Matt

O’Brien, Tom

O’Brien, William J.

O’Connor, John

O’Connor, T. V.

O’Connor, William “Billy,”

O’Connor, William (Chicago Chief of Detectives)

O’Connors Gunners

O’Donnell, Klondike

O’Donnell, Myles

O’Donnell, Spike

O’Donnells (South Side)

O’Donnells (West Side)

O’Dwyer, William

O’Keefe, James “Specs,”

Old Brewery

Old Smoke.
See
Morrissey, John

O’Leary, Big Jim

O’Leary, Catherine (Mrs.)

O’Malley, Robert Emmett

Omnibus Crime Control Act

On the Waterfront

movie

preparation

O’Reilly, Don Alexander

O’Sullivan, Billy

O’Sullivan, Jeremiah

Our Carter.
See
Harrison, Carter

Pantages, Alexander

Paradise Square

Parks, Grover

Parlor Mob

Patriarca, Raymond

Patriarca family

patronage

Big Tim Sullivan and

Connolly/Bulger arrangement

creating immigrant jobs

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