Word: campagna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Long to Live. Staring coldly at Willie Bioff as he discoursed upon their activities was an imposing array of hoodlums: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia, Muscleman Phil ("The Squire") D'Andrea, beer-war alumnus Charles ("Cherry Nose") Gioe, Machine-Gunner Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond. One man was not there, yet his shadow frowned large: Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, a successor to Al Capone, had committed suicide the day of the indictment. Duly, the directorate was convicted. It was felt that Willie did not have long to live. By making himself...
Died. Louis ("Little New York'') Campagna, 54, retired Capone gang gunman, extortionist and gambling boss; of a heart attack suffered while playing a 30-lb. fish on a pleasure cruiser at sea; in Miami. A graduate of New York's "Five Points" gang, Campagna followed Capone to Chicago as his bodyguard, later, after Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion, shared control of his vice and gambling syndicate with Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti. Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving...
...built herself a spanking new Hollywood-type villa, complete with swimming pool. Across the way from the Church of Domine Quo Vadis?, where tradition holds that Jesus appeared to the wavering Apostle Peter, an Esso station peddles axle grease and antiquities. Many a roadside vista of the old Roman campagna is now cluttered with factories, lumber yards and cheap houses...
...Washington, the Internal Revenue Department released a select Who's Who of underworldlings whose income tax returns are getting a thorough going over. Among the 126 names: Joe Adonis; Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, brother of "Scarface Al"; Anthony ("Little Augie" Pisano) Carfano; Louis ("Little New York") Campagna; Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca; Charles ("Cherry Nose") Gioe; Frank Diamond; Rocco Fischetti; Vito Genovese; Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler and Frank Costello...
...Drury was also a tough cop, handy with his fists and afraid of nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big Al's biggest brother. Once he even tried to pin a murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with...