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The Aaron Copland School of Music is one of the oldest departments at Queens College at the City University of New York, founded when the College opened in 1937. The department's curriculum was originally established by Edwin Stringham , and a later emphasis on the analytical system of Heinrich Schenker was initiated by Saul Novack .
Vincenzo Colosimo [2] (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso koˈlɔːzimo]; February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering.
During the mid to late 1920s, Belcastro was suspected of causing over 100 deaths while bombing saloons that refused to buy alcohol from Capone. During the 1927 Chicago primary elections – the so-called " Pineapple Primary " – Belcastro launched a bombing campaign against the opponents of Capone ally and Mayor, William Hale Thompson .
Kobler, John (1992). Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306804991. Donovan, Brian (2010). White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252091001. Eig, Jonathan (2014). Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster. Tantor ...
In October, a general amnesty had been ordered between Al Capone's Chicago Outfit and Bugs Moran's North Side Gang. However on December 30 Sheldon Gang member Hillory Clements was killed by the Saltis-McErlane Gang and in retaliation the Sheldon Gang killed Saltis gunmen Charlie Hubacek and Frank Koncil on March 11, 1927.
Rio eventually became one of Capone's personal bodyguards and took care of some of Capone's personal needs and business. Capone himself is rumored to have said that Jack McGurn and Rio were his "golden boys". Rio became one of Capone's most valuable and loyal henchmen. He allegedly once threw Capone to the ground during a hit by Earl "Hymie ...
Anthony Capone says in filing that he resigned from DocGo for “personal reasons” NEW YORK (AP) — The chief executive The post Caught in a lie, CEO of embattled firm caring for NYC migrants ...
Joseph Francis Saltis (8 September 1894 [1] – 2 August 1947), known as "Polack Joe", was a Rusyn American Prohibition era organized crime boss who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal bootlegging crime family in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago, until his territory was seized by Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit.