Playboy's History Of Organized Crime Part Ii: Chicago And The Prohibition Years

Playboy's History of Organized Crime Part II: Chicago and the Prohibition YearsBy 1920 Frankie Yale had grown rich, powerful and almost respectable. He owned Island and the Yale Cigar Manufacturing Company (his portrait was on every box, with the cigars selling three for 50 cents, carried in every store in Brooklyn, and Frankie Yale was the generic term for a lousy smoke), had pieces of race horses, prize fighters, night clubs and assorted other enterprises, ligitimate and illegitimate. He owned...