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...famed New York underworldlings, Owen ("Owney") Madden and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, were discovered to be taking flying lessons, independently of each other, at New York airports. Ex-Convict Madden, who says he is in the "laundry business," has ordered an elaborately equipped biplane from his instructor, Major Thomas Lanphier, U. S. A. retired, partner of Col. Lindbergh in Bird Aircraft Co. Rumrunner Higgins. who calls himself a "lobster fisherman," is said to own an Ireland amphibian. When they arrive at Roosevelt Field for lessons, their first questions are: "Madden been here today?", "Higgins around...
...name of a man who went to France after serving in the Italian Army, stayed in Paris to run a night club and became a byword for junketing college boys. Last autumn he closed up shop on depression-stricken Montmartre, came to Manhattan to run a saloon for Racketeer Owney Madden. Mr. Papavert is the translated version of a play which Mr. Zelli presented in Paris. It was originally of Teutonic extraction...
...supply for speakeasies cut off. Mr. McCampbell charged that the city police interfered with his agents' preliminary efforts to get evidence in the slummy neighborhood. Unsuccessful were the Government's first attempts to link the brewery's ownership to William ("Big Bill") Dwyer and Owen ("Owney") Madden. (To smoke out the owners of a $1,000,000 brewery in the fashionable Sutton Place neighborhood, which Dry agents raided in May, the U. S. last fortnight started proceedings to confiscate the real estate...
...five other prescribed gangsters against whom the Government will concentrate in New York are: Irving Wexler ("Waxey Gordon"), East Side whiskey peddler; Owen "Owney" Madden, extortionist, laundry racketeer; Larry Fay, shady proprietor of night clubs, taxicabs, milk associations; Bill Duffy, cabaret owner and prize fight manager; Giro Terranova, "The Artichoke King," who collects his levy from markets...