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Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler used to be a Bowery pickpocket. From thieving, petty assaults and a stretch in Sing Sing he stepped up into the real estate business. For partners he had a pair of plug-uglies named Max Hassel and Max Greenberg. His real estate business served as a cloak for bigtime bootlegging in New Jersey. By 1931 the Wexler breweries at Paterson and Union City were returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living...
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...
...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...
...Government 21a Harvard 5 Greek A Sever 36 Greek G. Professor Jackson, Sec 1 Sever 36 History 2a Emerson D History S Harvard 2 Latin B. Professor Peterkin, Sec. 4 Sever 18 Mathematics 38 Emerson D Music 3 Geol. Lect. Rm. Philosophy Sa Emerson A Physics B Althouse Wexler Mallinckrodt MB 9 Wheeler Winslow Mallinckrodt MB 23 Physics 1 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Physics 24a Pierce 304 Psychology 24 Emerson J Scandinavian 2 Sever 18 Social Ethics 10 Emerson A Social Ethics 27 Emerson A Spanish 4hf Emerson...
...German 2, sects. 2, 3 Sever 11 German 12b Sever 30 Government 8 Harvard 6 Greek B I Sever 30 History 12 New Lect. Hall History 56b New Lect. Hall Latin 12 Sever 18 Mathematics A II Prof. Birkhoff, 1 Sever 23, 24 Mr. Brown, 2 Sever 24 Mr. Wexler, 3 Sever 35 Mr. Fox, 4 Sever 35 Mathematics C, I sects 1, 2, 3, 4 Memorial Hall Mathematics 4 Sever 36 Mineralogy 2 Mineralogical Lab. Music 6 Sever 18 Philosophy A Prof. Eaton, E1 Emerson D Mr. Kraushaar, K1, K2 Emerson D Mr. Kerby-Miller, S1, S2, S3 Emerson...