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Owney Madden

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Owen Vincent Madden (December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965), known as Owney Madden and nicknamed "The Killer", was a leading underworld figure in Manhattan, most notable for his involvement in organized crime during Prohibition. [1]

57 relations: Arkansas, Associated Press, Bill Dwyer (mobster), Bill Robinson, Boardwalk Empire, Bob Hoskins, Boxing, Cab Calloway, Canadian whisky, Cotton Club, Duke Ellington, Francis Ford Coppola, Fredric Lehne, Gangster, George Raft, Gopher Gang, Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Hudson Dusters, Jack Johnson (boxer), Jim Beaver, Joseph Force Crater, Larry Fay, Leeds, Lena Horne, List of heavyweight boxing champions, Liverpool, Louis Armstrong, Lucky Luciano, Mad Dog Coll, Manhattan, Marvel Noir, Max Baer (boxer), Michael Walsh (author), New York City Police Department, Nicholas Brothers, Ossining, New York (town), Postmaster, Primo Carnera, Prohibition, Prohibition in the United States, Protection racket, RMS Oceanic (1899), RMS Teutonic, Rum-running, Sing Sing, Stephen Hunter, Stork Club, The Cotton Club (film), ..., The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, The New York Times, Tram, Walter Winchell, Wigan, William S. Burroughs, 52nd Street (Manhattan). Expand index (7 more) »

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bill Dwyer (mobster)

William Vincent Dwyer (1883–1946), known as "Big Bill" Dwyer, was an early Prohibition gangster and bootlegger in New York during the 1920s.

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Bill Robinson

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was an American tap dancer and actor, the best known and most highly paid African-American entertainer in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on premium cable channel HBO.

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Bob Hoskins

Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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Canadian whisky

Canadian whisky is a type of whisky produced in Canada.

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Cotton Club

The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Fredric Lehne

Fredric George Lehne (born February 3, 1959) is an American actor of film, stage, and television.

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Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.

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George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Gopher Gang

The Gopher Gang was an early 20th-century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James "Biff" Ellison, and Owney Madden.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hot Springs is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County.

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Hudson Dusters

The Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century.

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Jack Johnson (boxer)

John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915).

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Jim Beaver

James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian.

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Joseph Force Crater

Joseph Force Crater (January 5, 1889 – disappeared August 6, 1930, declared legally dead June 6, 1939) was a New York State Supreme Court Justice who vanished amid political scandal.

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Larry Fay

Larry Fay (1888 – January 1, 1933) was one of the early rumrunners of the Prohibition Era in New York City.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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List of heavyweight boxing champions

This is a chronological list of world heavyweight boxing champions since the introduction of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in about 1884.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born mobster and crime boss who operated mainly in the United States.

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Mad Dog Coll

Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (born Uinseann Ó Colla, July 20, 1908 – February 7, 1932) was an Irish-American mob hitman in the 1920s and early 1930s in New York City.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marvel Noir

Marvel Noir is a 2009-2010 Marvel Comics alternative continuity combining elements of film noir and pulp fiction with the Marvel Universe.

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Max Baer (boxer)

Maximilian Adelbert "Max" Baer (February 11, 1909 – November 21, 1959) was an American boxer of the 1930s (one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World) as well as a referee, and had an occasional role on film or television.

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Michael Walsh (author)

Michael A. Walsh (born October 23, 1949) is an American music critic, author, screenwriter, media critic, and cultural-political consultant.

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New York City Police Department

The City of New York Police Department, commonly known as the NYPD, is the primary law enforcement and investigation agency within the five boroughs of New York City.

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Nicholas Brothers

The Nicholas Brothers were a team of dancing brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who performed a highly acrobatic technique known as "flash dancing".

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Ossining, New York (town)

Ossining is a town located along the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York, United States.

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Postmaster

A postmaster is the head of an individual post office.

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Primo Carnera

Primo Carnera (October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967), nicknamed the Ambling Alp, was an Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 29, 1933, to June 14, 1934.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

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Protection racket

A protection racket is a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law—in other words, a racket that sells security, traditionally physical security but now also computer security.

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RMS Oceanic (1899)

RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line.

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RMS Teutonic

The RMS Teutonic was a steamship built for the White Star Line in Belfast and was the first armed merchant cruiser.

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Rum-running

Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.

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Sing Sing

Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic.

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Stork Club

The Stork Club was a nightclub in Manhattan, New York City, which during its existence from 1929 to 1965 was one of the most prestigious clubs in the world.

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The Cotton Club (film)

The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club.

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The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is a closet screenplay by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1970.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.

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Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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52nd Street (Manhattan)

52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owney_Madden

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