Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (83 page)

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

Shirt 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

Thompson, Henry

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.
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Kelly, Paul