Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD PROVIDENCE Ferriter, Grady, r.f. r.f., Shapiro, Madden Merry, Comfort, l.f. l.f., Ziment, Bostick Boys, Morse, c. c., Koslowski, Roberge Fletcher, Erunt, r.g. r.g., Reilly, Felt Henderson, l.g. l.g., Kutniewski, Morrison...
...Volstead Act shut down on the U. S. (Jan. 16, 1920), omnireminiscent Observer Walker takes a quick stroll through the 13 ensuing years, cocking a never-reverent eye at Manhattan's speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought in $8,400 in cash...
Author Walker devotes a chapter to Manhattan's No. 1 Racketeer, Owen Victor ("Owney") Madden, who under Prohibition "became, in many respects, the most important man in New York. . . . In many ways he had more sense than Capone. He was a better business man. He saw what too much publicity was doing for Capone." (Released from his latest term at Sing Sing last July, Owney Madden is now at large.) Of another Walker, Manhattan's ex-Mayor James John, he says: "If he had wanted to study, he could have led the class"; quotes Jimmy's definition...
Another agent of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler. whose wide interests include theatrical promotion (Strike Me Pink), liquor and an indictment for $400,000 tax evasion, was shot down as he got out of a bus in The Bronx last week. Owen Victor ("Owncy") Madden, best known Manhattan racketeer, whose Staten Island brewery is reportedly now operating legally, was let out of Sing Sing, where he had been since last July for violation of parole. In his pocket was $17.52 he had made growing carnations and jonquils...
...Coll was the kind of a gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...