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Category: /History
…of alcohol and narcotics. He was later convicted and sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison, where he soon died. Another famous mob boss who made a dramatic change in organized crime was Al (Scarface) Capone. Capone is perhaps the most famous and for a good…
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Category: /Literature/English
…to organized crime. Consumers wanted alcohol but it was not available on the open market. Since it was illegal people began to go to underground clubs called "speakeasies". The gang led by Al Capone primarily supplied the speakeasies of Chicago. Capone had hundreds…
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…mob boss who made a dramatic change in organized crime was Al (Scarface) Capone. Capone is perhaps the most famous and for a good reason. "Scarface became the leader of one of the world's largest crime families. The family numbered over 1000 members…
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Category: /History
…where buying or selling liquor could put you in jail. Organized crime grew as it took control of distributing illegal liquor and crime figures like Al Capone were in the papers. Smuggling on a large scale could not be prevented, and the illicit manufacture…
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Category: /History
…was a large city well known for its crime and violence. Al Capone of Chicago was probably the era’s most famous bootlegger. The violence reached its peak in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929. Four gang members, disguised as police officers, shot down…
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Category: /Literature/English
…of people think that cloning will create humans who look and think alike. People also think that they may try to clone evil people such as Adolf Hitler and Al Capon. In the “Philadelphia Inquire article Clones”, like twins, would not be an exact match…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…, music, and dancing are yet more fads included in Allen’s accounts. Next, the reader comes across Prohibition and Al Capone. Details of Prohibition are explained thoroughly as well as the entire bootlegging busi! ness, which included head gangsters like…
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…. Even murderous gang bosses achieved stardom. The most famous of all was Al Capone - the gangster boss who all but controlled Chicago. His fame rivaled that of Hollywood's superstars. Prohibition. In 1918, Prohibition had been introduced into America…
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Category: /History
…States to escape persecution from others which increased the numbers in the rising mob. Alphonse “ Scarface” Capone was another early organizer of the Mafia. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1899. His involvement in the Mafia began when he was eleven…
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…eighty years of the U.S. Army on Alcatraz had ended - except for 32 hard case prisoners, who were left to become the first penitentiary inmates. Some of the inmates included Al Capone and Robert Stroud, also known as the birdman of Alcatraz. Capone's exact…
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