Waxey Gordon, the Glossary
Waxey Gordon (born Irving Wexler; January 19, 1888 – June 24, 1952) was an American gangster who specialized in bootlegging and illegal gambling.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, Arnold Rothstein, Associated Press, Benjamin Fein, Black market, Brewery, Canada–United States border, Distillation, Guernica Editions, Heroin, Income tax, Lepke Buchalter, Limousine, Lower East Side, Lucchese crime family, Lucky Luciano, Manhattan, Medical school, Meyer Lansky, Myocardial infarction, National Crime Syndicate, New Jersey, New York (state), New York City, Oz Almog, Philadelphia, Pickpocketing, Prohibition in the United States, Rabbi, Racketeering, Rum-running, San Francisco, Speakeasy, Tax evasion, The New York Times, Thomas E. Dewey, United States Attorney, World War II.
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz ("the gannet") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States.
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Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is a small island offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.
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Arnold Rothstein
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928), nicknamed "The Brain", was an American racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish Mob in New York City. Waxey Gordon and Arnold Rothstein are American crime bosses, criminals from Manhattan, Jewish American gangsters and Prohibition-era gangsters.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Benjamin Fein
Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein (c. 1889–1962) was an early Jewish American gangster who dominated New York labor racketeering in the 1910s. Waxey Gordon and Benjamin Fein are gangsters from New York City and Jewish American gangsters.
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Black market
A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.
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Brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.
Canada–United States border
The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world.
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Distillation
Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.
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Guernica Editions
Guernica Editions is a Canadian independent publisher established in Montreal, Quebec, in 1978, by Antonio D'Alfonso.
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
Income tax
An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) in respect of the income or profits earned by them (commonly called taxable income).
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Lepke Buchalter
Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke or Lepke Buchalter, (February 6, 1897March 4, 1944) was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Waxey Gordon and Lepke Buchalter are American crime bosses, criminals from Manhattan, gangsters from New York City, Jewish American gangsters, People from the Lower East Side and Prohibition-era gangsters.
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Limousine
A limousine, or limo for short, is a large, chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle with a partition between the driver compartment and the passenger compartment which can be operated mechanically by hand or by a button electronically.
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Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.
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Lucchese crime family
The Lucchese crime family (pronounced) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
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Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. Waxey Gordon and Lucky Luciano are American drug traffickers, criminals from Manhattan, gangsters from New York City, People from the Lower East Side and Prohibition-era gangsters.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
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Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, professional school, or forms a part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians.
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Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. Waxey Gordon and Meyer Lansky are American crime bosses, criminals from Manhattan, gangsters from New York City, Jewish American gangsters, People from the Lower East Side and Prohibition-era gangsters.
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Myocardial infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.
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National Crime Syndicate
The National Crime Syndicate was a multi-ethnic, closely connected, American confederation of several criminal organizations.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oz Almog
Oz Almog is an Israeli and Austrian artist, born on 15 April 1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Pickpocketing
Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim's pocket without them noticing the theft at the time.
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Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Rabbi
A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.
Racketeering
Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.
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Rum-running
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Speakeasy
A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, was an illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages.
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Tax evasion
Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954.
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United States Attorney
United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxey_Gordon
Also known as Irving Wexler, Waxy Gordon.