Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1974
Book Description
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Blackmarket operations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1974
Book Description
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Nevada-California
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black market
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black market
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: pt. 1-1A. Florida
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Nevada-California Nov. 15-18, 20-22, 27, Dec. 13, 1950, Feb. 27-28, Mar. 2-3, 1951
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Florida
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1790
Book Description
Suburban Xanadu
Author: David G. Schwartz
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415935579
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Institution. Remarkably detailed and entertaining, Suburban Xanadu tells us a great deal about popular leisure in America, and why the suburban ideal has become so dominant in our social life. Book jacket.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415935579
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Institution. Remarkably detailed and entertaining, Suburban Xanadu tells us a great deal about popular leisure in America, and why the suburban ideal has become so dominant in our social life. Book jacket.
Barbarians in Our Midst
Author: Virgil W. Peterson
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124603
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
In this important book, Virgil W. Peterson, Operating Director of the Chicago Crime Commission and for twelve years a special agent for the FBI, sums up the incredible history of crime in Chicago. He shows how the growth of crime has kept pace with the phenomenal growth of the city itself, and how politics and crime have meshed in an almost unbelievable web of corruption. Mr. Peterson, who at one time worked for more than a year exclusively on the Dillinger investigation, knows his criminals and does not hesitate to give names and facts. He was instrumental in providing much of the data which enabled the Kefauver Committee to investigate not only Chicago but also those cities whose crime is controlled by Chicago gangsters. But before lifting the lid on Chicago today, he traces the colorful—not to say lurid—picture of the past. Early in the city’s history, there was Mayor “Long John” Wentworth who, in a fit of rage, fired the entire police force. And the infamous “Bathhouse John” Coughlin who with “Hinky Dink” Kenna ran Chicago’s huge First Ward for more than fifty years, and who was once imported to New York to impress the Tammany forces. And Minna and Ada Everleigh who ran the famous Everleigh House in the red-light district. And, of course, there was the whole Capone crowd: Johnny Torrio who shot his boss, Big Jim Colosimo, to gain control of the rackets; Dion O’Bannion, the florist who made corpses and then provided the funeral decorations, and many, many others. Here, too, is the true story of the Kelly-Nash machine—one of the most efficiently corrupt political organizations Chicago has ever known. And the story of how the Chicago crime network now reaches high into the Federal government. Mr. Peterson also gives the complete story of the Kefauver crime investigation in Chicago. And finally the author presents his program for the elimination of corruption in Chicago and throughout the country.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124603
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
In this important book, Virgil W. Peterson, Operating Director of the Chicago Crime Commission and for twelve years a special agent for the FBI, sums up the incredible history of crime in Chicago. He shows how the growth of crime has kept pace with the phenomenal growth of the city itself, and how politics and crime have meshed in an almost unbelievable web of corruption. Mr. Peterson, who at one time worked for more than a year exclusively on the Dillinger investigation, knows his criminals and does not hesitate to give names and facts. He was instrumental in providing much of the data which enabled the Kefauver Committee to investigate not only Chicago but also those cities whose crime is controlled by Chicago gangsters. But before lifting the lid on Chicago today, he traces the colorful—not to say lurid—picture of the past. Early in the city’s history, there was Mayor “Long John” Wentworth who, in a fit of rage, fired the entire police force. And the infamous “Bathhouse John” Coughlin who with “Hinky Dink” Kenna ran Chicago’s huge First Ward for more than fifty years, and who was once imported to New York to impress the Tammany forces. And Minna and Ada Everleigh who ran the famous Everleigh House in the red-light district. And, of course, there was the whole Capone crowd: Johnny Torrio who shot his boss, Big Jim Colosimo, to gain control of the rackets; Dion O’Bannion, the florist who made corpses and then provided the funeral decorations, and many, many others. Here, too, is the true story of the Kelly-Nash machine—one of the most efficiently corrupt political organizations Chicago has ever known. And the story of how the Chicago crime network now reaches high into the Federal government. Mr. Peterson also gives the complete story of the Kefauver crime investigation in Chicago. And finally the author presents his program for the elimination of corruption in Chicago and throughout the country.
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Unreal City
Author: Judith Nies
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568587481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures colliding—Hopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agencies—resulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don’t ask where the water comes from. They don’t see a city with the nation’s highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. They don’t see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Mead—where Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money is water.
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568587481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures colliding—Hopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agencies—resulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don’t ask where the water comes from. They don’t see a city with the nation’s highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. They don’t see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Mead—where Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money is water.