Podcast appearances and mentions of Thomas E Dewey

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Questo video traccia l'ascesa al potere di Lucky Luciano, soprannominato il “Pericolo Pubblico Numero 1”, dal 1930 fino al momento in cui venne arrestato e condannato nel 1936. Un racconto che intreccia guerra tra clan mafiosi, tradimenti, affari illeciti e la costruzione di un impero criminale moderno. l'indagine del procuratore Thomas E. Dewey nei primi anni '30, che fece irruzioni nei bordelli, raccolse testimonianze contro Luciano, dichiarazioni di prostitute che lo collegavano al racket del sesso (“compulsory prostitution”) e l'anno cruciale, il 1936, in cui Luciano venne arrestato, processato e condannato a 30-50 anni di carcere a Dannemora. #italiamistero #LuckyLuciano #PublicEnemyNumber1 #Mafia #ThomasEDewey #History #NewYorkCrimes www.italiamistero.it: https://www.italiamistero.it/ 

Luciano flees New York to evade Thomas E. Dewey. But after months of searching, Dewey's agents find Luciano and bring him back to face charges related to a prostitution business. Luciano fears he will spend the rest of his life in prison, but then the U.S. government asks for his help to keep the New York ports safe during World War II. Luciano has an opportunity to earn his freedom, but it will come with a high price. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join   Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial.   On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage.   For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After Luciano organizes the removal of Salvatore Maranzano, he institutes significant changes to the American Mafia. Luciano's most notable innovation is the creation of a governing body known as The Commission. The hope is that The Commission – made up of mob bosses from across the country – will resolve internal conflicts and avoid another major war. In 1935, The Commission faces its first big test when Dutch Schultz, an infamous New York gangster, wants to kill an ambitious federal prosecutor named Thomas E. Dewey. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join   Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial.   On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage.   For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The History of the American Mafia: How the Mob Built Its Empire in the US, with Former Gambino Crime Family Associate, Louis Ferrante.In this episode, Mark sits down with former Mob associate Louis Ferrante to discuss his book, Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia.The history of the American Mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra or simply "The Mob," is well known. Prohibition in the United States during the Roaring Twenties saw the rise of characters who have since been mythologized in Hollywood: Charles "Lucky" Luciano and his close confidant Meyer Lansky, Al "Scarface" Capone, Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, Dutch Schultz, Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, and Salvatore Maranzano.What makes Borgata different is that it was written by someone who lived "The Life," providing a unique perspective. Lou discusses the formation of The Commission, an underworld ruling council that controlled the Five Families of New York (now known as the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo), The Outfit in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Mafia.Lou talks about the rules, the use of violence, and how the US government looked to tackle the growing power of organized crime, spearheaded by the likes of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey.We also hear about Lou's own life in La Cosa Nostra and how he and his crew committed some of the most successful heists in US history, which ultimately landed him in prison.In prison, he began to read everything he could get his hands on, including history, philosophy, and the great classics of literature. He never turned on his former associates, but when he left prison, he also left "The Life." Now he speaks about his experiences with the Mob and has become a successful author (Unlocked: A Journey from Prison to Proust), including his new a huge three-part history of the American Mafia. In this episode, Mark and Lou discuss the first book, Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia.====================================================Louis Ferrante's book 'Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia' is available here: https://a.co/d/cDcxOQ2 Audible version: https://a.co/d/2VHu3Ht ====================================================

Murder Incorporated was a secretive enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and 1940s, established to carry out assassinations and enforce the Syndicate's control over organized crime across the United States. Led by figures like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia, the organization comprised professional hitmen such as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss. Responsible for hundreds of murders, they used brutal and varied methods to eliminate rivals, informants, and those who defied the Syndicate's authority. Law enforcement efforts, spearheaded by prosecutors like Thomas E. Dewey, intensified as public outcry grew. Reles eventually became an informant, providing critical testimony that led to the conviction and execution of key members, including Buchalter. The dismantling of Murder Incorporated marked a significant turning point in the fight against organized crime, and recent discoveries have shed additional light on their extensive operations and enduring impact on law enforcement tactics.(commercial at 13:35)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Murder Incorporated was a secretive enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and 1940s, established to carry out assassinations and enforce the Syndicate's control over organized crime across the United States. Led by figures like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia, the organization comprised professional hitmen such as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss. Responsible for hundreds of murders, they used brutal and varied methods to eliminate rivals, informants, and those who defied the Syndicate's authority. Law enforcement efforts, spearheaded by prosecutors like Thomas E. Dewey, intensified as public outcry grew. Reles eventually became an informant, providing critical testimony that led to the conviction and execution of key members, including Buchalter. The dismantling of Murder Incorporated marked a significant turning point in the fight against organized crime, and recent discoveries have shed additional light on their extensive operations and enduring impact on law enforcement tactics.(commercial at 13:35)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

The famous image of a victorious Harry Truman holding up a newspaper headlined “Dewey defeats Truman” is clear evidence that the 1948 Presidential election did not turn out the way many people had expected. That April, Truman's approval rating had sunk to 37%, causing even many in his party to consider dumping him from the ballot. That summer, a rebellion by southern Democrats led by South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond promised to deny Truman electoral votes that his Democratic predecessors could have counted on for a century. Yet, despite all this, Truman didn't just win, he won big- finishing 4.5 points and 114 electoral votes ahead of Dewey.   How did Truman manage to turn it all around in six months? Who was Thomas E. Dewey and why couldn't he deliver a win with the wind blowing so hard at his back? And what did southern democrats hope they'd get by giving 39 electoral votes to Strom Thurmond even when he had no chance of winning the national election? Let's find out.   In the fourth installment of our Third Party Elections Series, we talk the election of 1948 w/ Jefferson Cowie.   Dr. Jefferson Cowie is James G. Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book, Freedom's Dominion, A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books) was awarded the 20203 Pulitzer Prize in History. You can hear Jeff discussing Freedom's Dominion in RTN #255 and his other episodes on the 1970s (#115) and The New Deal and its Legacy (#24).     This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

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Pettengill's overview of the intersection of organized crime and law enforcement continues in Episode 15. It begins with a brief review of the shortcomings of Torrio's organization. Luciano and his associates had learned from this limitation and developed an enforcement wing of the Mafia - Murder, Incorporated. Murder, Inc. took care a lot of the Mafia's problems but it also attracted a lot of attention from law enforce officials, including Thomas E. Dewey. Dewey took on both Luciano and Murder, Inc. directly. In the process, as Pettengill notes, this scrutiny put the Mafia in a precarious position. It was through the leadership of Frank Costello, the "Prime Minister," that the Mafia saw its way through this difficult time. By 1941, it became obvious that the Mafia had staying power and even the efforts of sophisticated public officials were not enough to take it down.

Campaigning for the US Senate, 1950. Pic - Library of Congress In this 8th podcast, we explore the thinking of Richard Nixon.  Put yourself in his position.  You're 35, elected to the House in a Republican wave year from a district that is usually safely Democratic.  Your plum Committee assignment was Education and Labor.  But, on HUAC, this throbbing blob of a Case has come rolling in the door.  You and Bob Stripling saw possibilities that no one else saw and now The Case is all yours.  You have satisfied yourself that Hiss is lying and Chambers is telling the truth.  Now, for you, the issue is how far do you take this.  Do you risk everything (your whole career) for it?  How to prevent The Establishment from rallying around its fair haired boy Alger?  How to convince them that Hiss is lying and they should give you free rein?  How to satisfy yourself that Chambers will not crack under the pressure of public scrutiny and Democrat attacks, that he'll convince typical Americans, that there's nothing fishy in his past, that his love of melodrama will not carry him away into fantastication?  If anything goes wrong, in six months you'll be back in Whittier doing slip and fall cases.  In this podcast, you'll hear about the inner turmoil and external events that made up the mind of the future President.  Further Research: Episode 8:  Speculating about the thinking of Richard Nixon has been an indoor sport for people who knew him and the American intelligentsia for decades.  In his own writings about this moment in the Case, he is unusually candid about how uncertain and anxious he was.  See Six Crises at 19-23; see also Weinstein at 36-37.  Nixon sent his brother Ed and his Mother to chat with the Chamberses.  Ed Nixon & Karen Olson, “The Nixons: A Family Portrait” (2009) at 137-38.  Nixon also consulted a reporter for the leading liberal Republican newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune.  This Reporter, Bert Andrews, had been very critical of HUAC and other security agencies for being sloppy in recent investigations.  Nixon used him as a sounding board and devil's advocate in this Case and Andrews became a fascinated eyewitness to these and later crucial moments.  Andrews' posthumous memoir, “A Tragedy of History:  A Journalist's Confidential Role in the Hiss-Chambers Case,”  by Bert and Peter Andrews (1962) at 72-77 describes Andrews' first chats with Nixon and Chambers.  Andrews says that Chambers, when he needed time to shape his answers to questions, paused for 30-40 seconds and looked like he had gone into a trance.  Nixon, by the way, did not include Stripling in his deliberations at this phase. Questions:  You're Richard Nixon.  How do you decide whether to risk your whole career by supporting Chambers all the way?  How do you verify or discredit all the (alleged) facts about the Hisses' life in 1934-37 that Chambers divulged in his secret testimony?  Use HUAC's staff, obviously.  How else?  How do you get to know Chambers and form an opinion about his honesty (and perhaps sanity)?  Remember, he doesn't have to talk to you if he doesn't want to.  How can you investigate his past and see if there's anything fishy there?  How do you deter the natural pro-Hiss inclination of the Republican Establishment, which is itself invested in Hiss?  (Hiss's mentor at the Carnegie Endowment is John Foster Dulles, chief foreign policy advisor to Republican Presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey.)  Assuming you decide to ‘bet the farm' on Chambers, how do you get the news media involved so that this Case becomes Nixon's Triumph and not HUACs?  How do you separate yourself in the public mind from HUAC and launch a spectacular career of your own without earning the undying hatred of those you leave behind — Bob Stripling and the other members of HUAC?      

John Temple is the President and CEO of Guideposts, a national non-profit organization that promotes hope, faith, and prayer in people's lives. Guideposts reaches millions of people to build a more hopeful and positive world united in understanding,  empathy, and compassion. Under John's leadership,  Guideposts has grown from its publishing roots into a digital-first organization where the spiritual needs of the Guideposts community are being served through a combination of apps,  communities, websites, outreach, and publications.  Prior to Guideposts, John served as the founder and Chief of the Human Trafficking Response Unit at the Manhattan District  Attorney's Office in New York City. John worked to form the unit in recognition of the devastating impact that human trafficking has on its victims and their families. Under his leadership, the unit developed innovative approaches to combat trafficking on a domestic and international scale. His holistic vision brought together diverse stakeholders to build the anti-trafficking community across multiple disciplines,  geographies, and industries.   John has lectured both within the U.S. and internationally on human trafficking for foreign delegations, members of law enforcement, the legal community, non-profits, and other governmental agencies. He has been recognized for his anti-trafficking work as one of New York's “New Abolitionists” and is the recipient of the Thomas E. Dewey Medal for outstanding prosecutors.  From 2012 to 2016, John taught courses on human trafficking and constitutional law at Fordham University. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1998 and from Brooklyn Law School in 2003. 

Lamont and Margot investigate a sanitarium that is used as a front to hide fugitives who go on committing crimes and plan on stealing $50,000 in one firm’s securities. Commentary on star Stefan Schnabel.  Plus a look at the most controversial presidential campaign in 1948- until Trump/Biden of 2020- when Thomas E. Dewey was guaranteed the win over Harry S. Truman.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 6, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Dancing Painfully With The Stars 1: OK, he's 400 feet tall with bad fire breath, but as long as we don't go near Tokyo, this title guy can really samba. Godzilla. 2: Hope your salsa is up to snuff when you team with Det. Sonny Crockett's pet alligator, Elvis, from this show. Miami Vice. 3: Might be best not to bring up this fishy movie's sequels "3-D" and "The Revenge" when taking the floor. Jaws. 4: If you tango with this "mild" '60s TV title bear, at 650 lbs., let him lead. Gentle Ben. 5: Better take a deep breath before you do an underwater merengue with this '60s TV title dolphin. Flipper. Round 2. Category: '60s Trivia 1: By 1966 the Air Force had logged 10,147 sightings of these, but didn't believe any. UFOs. 2: It's what LBJ showed off to reporters in October 1965. a scar. 3: Jean Nidetch in 1963 lost 72 lbs. and started this company. Weight Watchers. 4: In 1967 he was kicked out of the House of Representatives for reprehensible behavior. Adam Clayton Powell. 5: In '61 this oil billionaire installed a pay phone in his mansion for guests to use. J. Paul Getty. Round 3. Category: The New York Times Book Review 1: In 2008 the Times called this author's "The Widows of Eastwick" a "predictably ingenious sequel". John Updike. 2: Julie Powell's "Julie and Julia", a blog-turned-book about mastering this chef's recipes, "has too much blog in its DNA". Julia Child. 3: This Bernhard Schlink novel about Hanna Schmitz was "ultimately hopeful"; it became a 2008 film. The Reader. 4: In 2009 the Times liked "The Women", which dealt with this man's loves, like Mamah, who was murdered at Taliesin. Frank Lloyd Wright. 5: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist". Tom Wolfe. Round 4. Category: Homonyms 1: Where newlyweds might walk on their wedding day and on the day after. Aisle/isle. 2: To switch, or the dimes and quarters in your pocket. change. 3: To throw a fishing net into the water, or the actors in a play. cast. 4: Part of the covering on a lizard, or the minimum wage fixed by a performer's contract. scale. 5: The triangular blade on an anchor's arm, or an accidental stroke of good luck. a fluke. Round 5. Category: Second Place 1: South America's second largest country in area, it borders the largest. Argentina. 2: It's the second place award in an Olympic event. Silver medal. 3: It was the second nation to put a man in space. USA. 4: He had the second highest vote total in the 1944 U.S. presidential balloting. Thomas E. Dewey. 5: This man wasn't knighted after being the second man to stand on top of Mt. Everest. Tenzing Norgay (the man who was with Hillary). Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Harry Truman delivered his inaugural address on January 20th, 1949. He was locked in a dead heat with Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York. Dewey was the odds on favorite – so much so that the Chicago Daily Tribune decided to preprint newspapers that proclaimed Dewey's victory over the incumbent. Alas, anyone that bet against Truman lost. Whereas Dewey went the strategy of not saying anything that could ruffle feathers, Truman went all in. If he went down, it would be in glorious flames. Polling was still in its infancy, but the upset victory prophesied elections to come. The cover art is a 1945 portrait of Harry Truman by Greta Kempton. You can get a copy of My Fellow Americans here: Pay-What-You-Want: https://gumroad.com/l/myfellowamericans Kindle ($4.99): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DXN4KTM Apple Books ($4.99): https://books.apple.com/us/book/my-fellow-americans/id1540137345 Librecron ($4.99): https://librecron.com/products/my-fellow-americans_yuvraj-singh

The Association presents its annual Thomas E. Dewey Medal, awarded to outstanding assistant district attorneys in each of the District Attorney's offices within New York City and the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York. This year’s medal winners are: Astrid Borgstedt, Bronx County Leonard Joblove, Kings County Christopher Conroy, New York County Robert J. Masters, Queens County Lisa Davis, Richmond County Andrés Torres, Special Narcotics Keynote Speaker: John M. Ryan, Acting District Attorney, Queens County Among prosecutors in New York County, Thomas E. Dewey is remembered as having ushered in the era in which the District Attorney's office has been staffed by professional prosecutors chosen on merit rather than through political patronage. Dewey first came to the public's attention as a prosecutor in the 1930s, instituting successful criminal proceedings against gangsters, bootleggers and organized crime figures of the day. By 1937, Dewey was elected District Attorney of New York County, where he served one term before resigning to run for governor. The awards are made possible by the generosity of the firm of Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey went neck and neck during the presidential campaign. President Roosevelt came out on top and was sworn into his fourth term as Commander and Chief.

While chaos was brewing throughout the world, back in the U.S. the presidential campaign went on. Thomas E. Dewey went head to head with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the closet election of the 1900's.

While chaos was brewing throughout the world, back in the U.S. the presidential campaign went on. Thomas E. Dewey went head to head with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the closet election of the 1900's.

Brandi starts us off with the ultimate mob boss, Al Capone. For years, Al Capone ran Chicago. He was the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Mafia, commonly known as the Chicago Outfit. During the Prohibition era, Capone made big money by operating illegal establishments. Anyone who threatened his businesses was promptly killed. Al did too many illegal things to list, but the most boring one is what took him down. He didn’t pay his taxes. Then Kristin tells us about Dutch Schultz. He may not be a household name today, but in his day, Dutch Schultz was very well known. He was violent, ruthless, and rich. He ran illegal lotteries, operated speakeasies and extorted restaurateurs. Oh yeah. And he didn’t pay taxes. Are we sensing a pattern?  And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases. In this episode, Kristin pulled from: The book, “The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano: The Mafia Story in His own words” by Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer “Thomas E. Dewey Defeats Dutch Schultz,” historynet.com “Gangster Dutch Schultz died a millionaire, but where did all his money go?” by William DeLong for allthatsinteresting.com “Dutch Schultz,” wikipedia In this episode, Brandi pulled from: “Al Capone Trial (1931)” Famous-Trials.com (http://famous-trials.com) “Al Capone” by Marilyn Bardsley, Crime Library “Al Capone” FBI.gov (http://fbi.gov) “Al Capone”http://wikipedia.org

Comic historian Thom Woodley investigates the losers of presidential history - this time Thomas E. Dewey, two time Republican nominee, the gangbusting man on the wedding cake who lost to FDR and Harry Truman. 

Author and presidential historian Richard Norton Smith speaks to the Steamboat Springs audience about what it means to be presidential in his talk "How Do You Get To Mt. Rushmore: Can Presidential Character Be Set In Stone?" Smith is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, "Thomas E. Dewey and His Times." He is also author of "An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover" and his most recent book, "The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick," which has been awarded the Goldsmith Prize by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School. This Seminar was recorded on August 5, 2019.

Dutch Schultz thought it would be a good idea to kill New York Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey. He would learn that Lucky Luciano and the Commission did not agree and he should never have... The post The Death of Dutch Schultz – Bonus Episode appeared first on Gangland Wire.

The story continues about Charles “Lucky” Luciano, who made the Mob a highly sophisticated criminal empire. From night clubs to brothels, Luciano’s Mob spread its tentacles into every part of American society, earning billions . . . and a reputation. Meanwhile, the FBI had declared war on organized crime, and the prosecution took the form of Thomas E. Dewey.   In Part 2, we’ll discover how Luciano was finally put behind bars, until the outbreak of World War 2 played a part in his escape from justice.  This episode is sponsored by Hims and Casper. 

Mr. District Attorney was a popular radio crime drama which aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953). The series focused on a crusading D.A., known throughout the series only as "Mister District Attorney," or "Chief", and was later translated to television. Created, written, and directed by former law student Ed Byron, the series was inspired by the early years of New York governor Thomas E. Dewey. It was Dewey's public war against racketeering which led to his election as governor. Phillips H. Lord, creator of Gangbusters, helped to develop the concept and coined the title. Byron lent an air of accuracy and immediacy to his scripts through close study of crime statistics, a library of criminology texts, following the newspapers, and even going around rough bars to gain tips, background, and color from crooks and police alike. His techniques sometimes enabled Byron to accurately predicting major crime waves before the news broke.