Playboy's History Of Organized Crime Part Ii: Chicago And The Prohibition Years
September, 1973
By 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 a fleet of fast boats and when Prohibition came, he turned them loose for quic...
