Robert Grey Reynolds
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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The murders of Broadway celebrities Thula Louise Lawson and Dorothy Keenan, in 1923 and 1924, occurred in the Times Square/Theater District of Manhattan, New York. Lawson and Keenan were both associated with mobsters in their social lives, especially in the clubs they frequented in Manhattan. Lawson came to New York from Texas. She was a talented musician and also an ingenue actress in theater. Keenan, also known as Dot King, began as a seamstress...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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A July 1932 U.S. Government investigative report of the Al Capone syndicate identified Hymie Levine as a collector and lieutenant of Jack Greasy Thumb Guzik. Hymie was multifaceted in what he did. A used parts garage that he owned in Chicago doubled as a business where police who received protection were paid off. A phone call from Levine to Guzik identified a particular policeman and the amount he was paid monthly to turn a blind eye to mob operations....
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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Dana was a native of Frankfurt (Oder) and a college student in East Berlin in the mid and late 1980s. She answered a letter that I wrote to Bulgaria Today magazine, which was located in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1984. Dana is somewhat younger than I am. She often wrote to me while traveling on a train from her home in Frankfurt (Oder) to her university in East Berlin. Her letters are a thing of the past, and not just because there is no longer a Cold War...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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James Wilkinson has been maligned throughout American History as a schemer and an unscrupulous individual. My e-book looks at many incidents in his military career that earned him the reputation as a blackhearted treacherous figure. There are so many instances where he ingratiated himself with superiors to benefit his ascent in the Continental Army. Among these is the Conway Cabal, a plot that Wilkinson joined with Horatio Gates to backstab George...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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An American Airlines Convair 240 on its way from Boston to Chicago became the first air tragedy in the Albany, New York capitol area. The disaster was due in part to fog that would not lift on the morning of the crash. The plane ran into two separate radio towers after the pilot made an incorrect decision while waiting to land. Air traffic was another factor in the tragedy as were wing flaps that failed to deploy. The pilot of the Convair was familiar...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Herman Webster Mudgett was responsible for the deaths of as many as 200 people. Most of them were murdered during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, which was held in Chicago. Mudgett confessed to 27 of these killings. So far as I know there has not been a published account of Herman Mudgett's ancestry. The man who became Dr. Henry Horton Holmes came to Chicago from New England. His family migrated from England in the 17th century to Massachusetts,...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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"The history of a railroad includes the personal histories of the individuals who worked for it. In 1880 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in Topeka, Kansas employed executives, clerks, yard superintendents, conductors, supervisors, etc. Most of the people who worked for the railroad came from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Others moved to Topeka from Ohio and Illinois in the Midwest. Several came directly from England and...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Alex Karras was suspended indefinitely by National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle in April 1963. My e-book describes the NFL's investigation, which involved former FBI agents who worked for professional football. Was Rozelle correct in the indefinite suspension he extended to the Detroit Lions' defensive tackle? It is up to readers to conclude the extent of Karras' involvement in the scandal. Karras admitted to betting small amounts on...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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Benny Kauff was a major league hitter, fielder, and base runner of great talent. He played with the Indianapolis Hoosiers and Brooklyn Tip-Tops, of the short-lived Federal League, in 1914 and 1915. Often compared to Hall of Famer Ty Cobb, Kauff was a multi-talented outfielder, who could hit for power. His career was abbreviated because of a car theft arrest in late 1919. Benny was later acquitted of the charges by a grand jury in New York City. However,...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Albert Anastasia headed up Murder Inc. a feared Mafia group that controlled the Brooklyn dockyards, segments of the fashion industry, and was notorious for administering gangland justice. On the morning of October 25, 1957 Anastasia was reclining in a barber's chair at the exclusive Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City's midtown Manhattan district. Two masked gunmen entered the barber shop with gloves on their hands and pumped five bullets into the...
11) Josephine Baker
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the delight of French audiences, dancing entirely nude on some occasions. When she toured central Europe a bit later on a carpenter there became so infatuated...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Frank Funzi Tieri became the Boss of Bosses among New York's five crime families following the death of Carlo Gambino in 1976. Tieri was involved in gambling and loan sharking to a large extent. He was saved from serving a prison term of nearly a decade when he died of colon cancer in 1981. Funzi may have been the model for Mario Puzo Godfather character Vito Corleone. He was admired for his debonnaire dress, his Mafia mannerisms and willingness to...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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"In 1872 Chicago was just recovering from the awful tragedy caused by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, i.e. a conflagration that burned from October 8-10, 1871. Steam engines, antiques by modern standards, were sorely tested in controlling fires that often burned uncontrolled for hours and days. The earliest hook and ladder fire truck was two years in the future. My directory lists the names, addresses, and business affiliations of firemen who worked...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Albert Tannanbaum was a member of the notorious kill for hire organization in Brooklyn known as Murder, Incorporated He assassinated people for money and fingered others to be killed. One of the men he was involved in murdering was Hyman Yuran, a dress manufacturer whose body wasn't discovered for many months. Another was a taxi driver who was slain in Lochsheldrake, New York. Tannenbaum's father ran a hotel in the Catskills that was frequented by...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource
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English
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Angela Dorian is a famous Playboy Playmate who used her magazine modeling to become a successful actress in motion pictures and on television. She appeared in numerous mid 1960s television shows and debuted in movies in Chuka, a 1967 western that starred Rod Taylor. Her best known film is When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, a sci fi/creature feature in which she played a cave woman. Dinosaurs was a perfect vehicle for the actress to display her curvaceous...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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My e-book on Lucky Luciano looks at his criminal career which began in New York City when he was 9. His first significant setback was Thomas Dewey's prosecution for compulsive prostitution. This sent Luciano to prison for a term of thirty years, or at least it was thought so at the time. Lucky's sentence was commuted after 9 years when he was supposedly used to help the Allies win the war in Europe. Whether he helped or not is still undetermined....
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Jack Sharkey fought Primo Carnera at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn in 1931. His left hook decked the Italian giant and he won the bout comfortably. Several years later the two boxers met again, this time at the Garden Bowl in Long Island City. Many things had changed between the two fights. Carnera was fighting to take the heavyweight boxing title from the Boston fighter of Lithuanian descent in the second bout. Perhaps most importantly the big second...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Police Department have kept hidden a dark secret since 1959. During August 1959 an 18-year-old prostitute came forward with an allegation that she had been solicited by three major leaguers for sex. The sexual contact occurred in the upper floors of the Moonglo Cafe' which was sometimes referred to as a hotel and supper club. One of the establishment's owners had propositioned the...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Palmistry may have been practiced as early as 3000 B.C. Regardless of the exact date of origin it has been a tool for understanding life throughout the ages of mankind. Gypsies used it and were sometimes regarded as notorious from their practice of palm reading. In the early 20th Century the West End of New York was filled with swindlers who earned fortunes through false palm readings of rich clients. However, along with people who duped their subjects,...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Peter Arundell was a very versatile race driver whose Formula One career was cut short by an accident he sustained in France in 1964. Arundell debuted as a Formula One driver in 1963 a year after he won the Formula Junior title. The Ilwich native returned to Formula One in 1966 for eleven races. Peter also raced Touring Cars in an era when Lotus-Cortinas, Galaxie 500s, and Mustangs were fielded by various teams. An upstart Scotsman Jackie Stewart...