Word: gerardo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...younger days, Gerardo Catena was convicted of eight felonies, ranging from hijacking to bribing a federal juror, but those inconveniences did not slow his steady rise through the Mafia hierarchy. By the late 1960s he was boss of 600 button men in northern New Jersey and heavily involved in gambling and loan-sharking. Thus it was only logical for the state commission of investigation to summon him in 1970 for questioning about organized-crime activities. Granted immunity from prosecution for his answers, Catena still refused to talk, so a superior court sent him to jail. Under civil contempt procedures common...
...Biase, 40, disagreed. "I don't want to strike. That only benefits management. I'm afraid that if there's no work, we're going back to hunger." Jobless men will receive unemployment benefits, but they will still lose $10 a week in wages. Said Gerardo Mansi, 34, father of five: "Los ing $40 a month for somebody who's got to go through acrobatics to get through the month as it is is like losing an endowment...
...Prefect Domenico Amari as it approached city hall, setting off three days of rioting that resulted in a dozen injuries and eight arrests. Politicians of all shades loudly began accusing one another of negligence and corruption, tossing the blame around like an infected mussel. Exhausted by the uproar, Mayor Gerardo De Michele abruptly resigned last week, taking his administration with him. In the midst of its worst crisis since World War II, Naples found itself without a municipal government...
...Cuban dictator and twice President between 1933 and his overthrow by Fidel Castro in 1959; of a heart attack; in Guadalmina, Spain. Born into the lower classes, Batista joined the army in 1921 and learned its inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless -but genuine-"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar deals with...
Eboli nevertheless became one of three men to inherit the command of the family when Genovese died in 1969. Of the others, Gerardo Catena has since been imprisoned for refusing to answer questions from a New Jersey crime commission, and Mike Miranda is too old, at 78, to want to wield top power. Eboli's murder gives the aging Carlo Gambino effective control of the Genovese family...