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Harold Gibbons was a progressive unionist who came to St. Louis during the 1940s. He was considered a likely successor to James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa as President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters until the two labor leaders clashed in 1963. Before this they were a tandem as president and...

Pietro Peter Panto was a union leader who tried unsuccessfully to remove mob control from the loading docks of the Brooklyn shipyards. In July 1939 Panto disappeared after saying goodbye to his girlfriend one morning. He told her he was meeting two men that he didn't trust. Within weeks she contacted...

Extortion and Fake Labor Unions worked hand in hand in a scheme concocted by Solomon "Sol" Massarsky, two private detectives and a well known lawyer. The men banded together in a attempt to defraud Wheelan Studios of money in 1943. Picketing the Manhattan offices of the business the extortionists had succeeded in coercing a payment of $1,000 before they were arrested by police detectives.

Johnny Guista was a powerful force behind the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) in the years before his death in May 1931. Guistra was from Calabria like Carmelo Liconti, his partner in the undertaking business. Liconti and Guistra attempted to broker a halt to the Castellammarese...

Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli aka Paul Kelly was a notorious gang leader in New York City beginning in the 1890s. The son of Italian immigrants he legally changed his name to Paul Kelly when he became involved in political and labor issues that concerned the Irish population of the city. Kelly propped...

Al Capone moved into union racketeering in 1920s, one of many Mafia bosses who did so. Three Capone surrogates were murdered in cold blood in the Blue Hour Saloon on April 20, 1930. A single assassin was responsible for all three deaths. The murders represented a rupture in the peace agreement in...

A badly charred Frank Kierdorf entered St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan in the early morning hours of Monday, August 4, 1958. Burned over 85% of his body, the wounded man lived for nearly four days. During this time he maintained a story that he'd been abducted by captors who took...

Medico Industries is a defense contractor formerly based in Pittston, Pennsylvania. It was later relocated to Wilkes-Barre. The period I have written about is from 1957 until the early 1970s. William Medico was chairman of the board and his brother Phil was a significant player in the organization....

Joe Profaci was head of a large empire that centered on olive oil importation. He had briefly become involved in bootlegging in the late 1920s before he was rounded up with other mobsters in a Cleveland hotel in 1928. His Mafia baronage included loan sharking and jukebox rackets. Before the early...

Babe Triscaro was a pugilist who won a Gold Gloves boxing title as a flyweight in 1931. He became an important figure in the Teamsters Union, rising to the second ranking position in the state of Ohio. My e-book discusses Babe's contraband venture, specifically his attempted sale of military...

A book of drink recipes that include no fruit juice, soda, water, or liqueur. Sophisticatedly Strong Drinks made of only liquor, beer, and wine or champagne.

Quality Management Integration: Quality in Modern Business is for managers who have a basic knowledge of Quality and desire the benefits of implementing a Quality Management System into their business.This book consolidates Quality theory into an action - oriented plan. Quality is not an accident....

Are you thinking of getting into the business of janitorial work? Do you want to be a cleaning contractor? Have you wondered what the startup costs might be? A lot of folks believe they know how to clean stuff, especially those that have worked in the World of Clean - the janitorial and sanitation...

Needs comprise only half of the demand equation. Wants are the other half. For decades, professional sales strategies focused on the identification, communication, and satisfaction of customer needs. Benefit based selling defined needs from the potential customer’s perspective. An expert sales representative...