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Word: compagna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli and Newark's Louis Kaufman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: How to Be a Racketeer | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Under the bland, long-lashed stare of roly-poly Defendant Louis Compagna, wily Willie Bioff testified: "Compagna came to see me and said he heard what I said about resigning. 'Anybody resigns from us resigns feet first, understand?' he tells me. So I didn't resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: How to Be a Racketeer | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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