Word: terranova
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Giro ("The Boss") Terranova, 49, onetime Artichoke King; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 31 years of racketeering, Terranova was arrested 14 times, convicted once, jailed never...
...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...
Sensational evidence was provided by Inspector Joseph J. Donovan of the Bureau of Criminal Identification who declared that his subordinates had learned that the hold-up had been a fake. Alleged reason: Ciro Terranova had negotiated with a Chicago gunman to kill two famed gangsters, Frankie Marlow, who was found with three shots through his head near a Flushing, L. I., cemetery (TIME, July 8) and Frankie Yale, who was riddled while automobile driving in Brooklyn (TIME. July 9, 1928). Terranova had signed a contract agreeing to pay $20,000 for the two killings. He had delivered...
This lurid hypothesis was dismissed by District Attorney McGeehan of The Bronx with the remark: "I see no purpose to be served in summoning Terranova." Mr. Terranova himself, interviewed in his Spanish mansion, extensively decorated with stuffed birds, in Pelham Manor, N. Y., denied that he was at the dinner, stated that there is nothing unusual about his limousine...
...Artichokes in the U. S., grown chiefly in California, are rare vegetables. Mr. Terranova is said to control a sales network virtually amounting to an artichoke monopoly in Manhattan markets...