INDEX

Abortion, 89
Acalotti, Attilio, 113, 172, 207, 210, 225, 232
Acheson, Dean, 10, 138, 159
Acropolis, 127
Actor’s Equity Association, 16
Adonis, Joe, 175, 186, 198, 202, 203
Alcoholic Beverage Control, 42
Al Faquih, Sheikh Asad, 150
Alleys, 51
Ambassador Hotel, 13, 14
Ambassadors’ Rows, 20
American Federation of Labor, 167
Americans for Democratic Action, 159
Amvets, 128
Anslinger, Harry J., 108, 109, 110, 183, 184, 251
Armed Services Police, 71
Arnold, Thurman, 158
Arvey, Jake, 160, 165
Astoria Hotel, 25
Atlas Club, 126
Autograph collecting, 132
B Girls, 26, 34, 262, 268
Bacon, Mrs. Robert Low, 136
Bail, 231
Bakar, Abdullah Ibraham, 150
Balbo, Italo, 147
Ballet-dancers, 9
Baltimore, 2, 17, 22, 26, 250 ff.
Band Box, 33
Banneker High School, 54
Barbiturates, 116
Barrett, Robert J., 56, 60, 174, 175, 221
Beach, Carmen, 24
Beard, Sam, 172, 207
Benjamin, Herbert J., 101
Bentley, Faye L., 120
Berman, Mrs. Louise Branson, 103
Bernstein, Izzie, 184
Bettye Mills Night Club, 267
Big Tit Flossie, 53
Billeci, Frank, 225
Binaggio, 191
Black Belt, 37
Black Hand, 180, 181
Black Town, 109, 124, 130
Block-buster, 43, 44
Blue Mirror, 132, 269
Boehman, Ambassador Erik, 151
Bookmakers, 69
Bookmaking, 72, 207, 210, 211
Bottlegging, 55, 124, 130, 145
Booze, 281
Borden, Mrs. Jay, 136
Border of D. C., 62
Bosses, The, 234 ff.
Bottle-clubs, 39, 69, 124–129
Bowers, Florence, 85
Bowery, 30, 32
Boyle, William Marshall, 140, 158, 186, 196
Bralove, Harry, 15
Braverman, Marvin, 163
Bridges, Senator Styles, 99
Brisco, 40
Bronzeville, 37, 41, 45, 119
Brooks Brothers, 18
Brooks, Mrs. Louis Cromwell, 143
Brown, Al, 127
Brown, Constantine, 99
Brown, Lamarr (Polly), 49
Buchalter, Lepke, 191
Bureau of Narcotics, 108, 110, 184
Bureau of the Census, 41
Burlesque, 31, 65
Burning Tree Club, 141
C girls, see Company Girls
Cab drivers, 13, 49
Cabarets, 282
Cafritz, Gwendolyn, 138, 139
Cafritz, Morris, 13, 138, 139, 141
Call girls, 83
Capital Transit Company, 192
Capitol Police, 70
Capone, Al, 67, 172, 175
Carlton, 13, 14
Carter, Diane, 28
Carter, Johnny W., 49
Casablanca Tavern, 26
Casino Royal, 132
Census, 34, 58
Central Intelligence Agency, 100
Century Athletic Club, 260
Chanticleer, 269
Chapman, Oscar L., 17
Charnay, Dave, 164, 165
Chevy Chase, 20
Chevy Chase Club, 141
Chicago Confidential, 57, 164, 177, 180, 182, 190, 194, 197, 198, 221
China, 109
China Clipper, 26, 56
Chinatown, 32, 56 ff., 113
Chinese, 112
Chinese, smuggling, 58
Chinese whores, 59
Chitlin industry, 55
Chitlin party, 55
CIO, 167
Clark, Charles Patrick, 157
Clark, Tom, 187
Clifford, Clark, 163
Clip Joints, 282
Club Bali, 49
Club Charles, 269
Club Harlem, 51
Cocaine, 108
Cockrill, Judge Edith H., 120
Comi Brothers, 260
Communists, 9, 58, 99 ff., 112
Company Girls, 83 ff.
Conga, 65
Connelly, Tom, 203, 204
Conners, Harry, 127
Cooper, Billie, 27
Copacabana, 186, 197
Corbi Brothers, 260
Corbi, Joseph, 261
Corcoran, Tommy the Cork, 11, 158
Coronet, 269
Corporation Council, 236, 237
Costello, Frank, 65, 67, 164, 173, 174, 175, 182, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 197, 199, 205, 261, 271
Covered Wagon, 26
Crap, 211
Crime, 7, 213 ff.
Crossroads, 65
Crystal Cavern, 129
Culinary Arts, 127
Curran, Boss Bill, 260
Currie, Laughlin, 158
Czechoslovakia, 109
Daily Worker, 17
D’Alesandro, Jr., Thomas, 264
Dancing, 283
Darktown, 272
Dates, 283
David’s Grill, 95
Davis, 243
Davis, Henry W., 127
Davis, James G., 242
Dawson, Congressman William, 45
Dawson, Donald, 166
De Callejon, Don Eduardo Propper, 151
De Kauffman, Ambassador Henrick, 149
De Luca, Joe, 191
De Morgenstierne, Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe, 150
Department of Justice, 121
Desvernine, Eugene, 98
Dialect, 6
Diane, 26
Dining, 284
Diplomats, 144 ff.
Diplomats, Sexual life of, 145–149
District Committee, 241, 244
Divorce, 284
Dixie Pig, 66
Dondero, Congressman, 104, 105
Dope, 49, 61, 112, 122
Dope peddlers, 51, 53, 60, 110
Doris, 27
Downtown Club, 127
Dragon, 56
Drury, Bill, 45, 203, 204
Dunbar Hotel, 50
Dupont Circle, 20, 93, 135, 207
Dupont Plaza, 20
Dupont Theatre, 102
Eastern House, 60
Economic Cooperation Administration, 170
Economic planners, 9
Edwards, William J. Foots, 50
Eichler, David K., 97
Emerson, Faye, 160
Emerson Hotel, 266
Eng Hon, 61
Erickson, Frank, 127, 190, 207
Erkin, Feridun Cemal, 151
F.B.I., 28, 29, 104, 106, 169, 173, 184, 202, 203, 213, 246, 249, 250
Fair Deal, 11
Fairies, 10
Fairy Brigade, 71
Fairy Shows, 65
Fastest Runners, 54
Fay, George Morris, 213, 250
Fear, 7
Federal Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 58
Felonies, 46
Ferone, Dominic, 127
Fischbach, Hyman I., 114, 124, 125, 216, 242, 243
Fischetti, Charlie, 165, 173, 177, 182, 191
Flynn, Ed, 36. 188, 189, 197, 200, 214, 256
Fong Wah Co., 61
Ford, Charles, 24, 67, 125, 127, 175, 176, 230, 231, 232, 233
Ford’s Theatre, 15
Forest Lawn Cemetery, 2, 3
Fortas, Abe, 158
Fortune-tellers, 277
Forty Thieves, 54
Fox, 26
Frankfurter, Felix, 10, 100, 104, 105, 166, 197
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Theatre, 17
Franklin Park Hotel, 92, 93, 94
Franks, Sir Oliver Shewell, 150
Free Loaders, 280
Freedman’s Hospital, 52
Frye, John, 51
Fulton, Hugh, 163
G Girls, 75, 77
Gabrielson, Guy George, 140
Gamblers, 52, 66
Gambling, 61, 69, 122, 126, 198, 201, 206 ff., 270, 271, 273
Gamby’s, 272
Gangs, 121
Garfield Hospital, 52
Garfinkel, 18
Gayety Burlesque, 16, 31
Georgetown, 8 ff., 207
Georgetown University, 10
Gianaris, Pete, 67, 173
Gilbert, Dan, 199
Gin-flats, 130
Ginmill operators, 51
Gizzo, Tony, 191
Glen Echo, 68
Glickfield, Albert, 127
Goat Alley, 51
Goebels, Tony, See Ricci
Gold Key, 127
Goldberg, George, 260
Goodwin, Mrs. Gussie (Gushie), 137, 138
Goof balls, 117
Grand Council, 182
Greek Colony, 33
Greenwich Village, 8, 9, 51
Gross, Mrs. Laura Curtis, 141
Guess Who, 127
Guns, 285
Guy’s, 33
Hague, Boss, 245
Halim, Tawhida, 139
Halley, Rudolph, 163, 164, 165, 197, 198, 202, 203, 204
Hanlon, Dan, 158
Harding, George P., 174
Harlem, 37, 45, 119
Harrison Narcotics Law, 107
Harvard, 8, 104
Harvey’s, 18, 19
Hastie, William, 45
Hecht’s Hotel, 33
Hellenic Social Club, 33
Henderson, Leon, 159
Heroin, 113
Hetzel, Mrs. Curt, 141
Hideaway Club, 11, 124, 126, 129, 174
High Hat Cocktail Lounge, 14
Hill, Virginia, 205
Hilmer, Lucien, 171
Hip Sing, 57, 60, 61, 113
Hobo Heaven, 263
Holiday, Billie, 132
Holiday magazine, 38
Homosexual Bureau, 97
Homosexuals, 11, 19, 65, 90 ff., 272
Hooker, 22
Hooker, General Joe, 22
Hoover, J. Edgar, 18, 19, 106, 169, 173, 191, 213, 246
Hopkins, Harry, 11, 143, 257
Hopkins Institute, 28, 29
Hotels, assignation, 13, 285
Hughes, Maury, 187
Hunt, Lester, 201
Illiteracy, 36
Impellitteri, Mayor Vincent, 186
Intelligence Unit, 251
International Syndicate, 49
Introducers, 280
Italians, 259
Jack’s Grill, 25
Jarwood’s, 191
Javits, Jacob K., 162
Jawitz, Arthur, 192
Jeffers, Jesse W. Jr., 111
Jewel Box, 93, 94
Jimmy’s Place, 176
Johnson, Louis D., 159, 160
Johnston, William B., 192
Jolson, Al, 53
Jones, Puddin’ Head, 34, 36, 49
Joy Inn, 61
Juvenile Court, 119
Juvenile delinquency, 118
Karrica, Mary, 146
Kavakos’ Grill, 95, 132
Kay’s, 266
Kefauver, Estes, 64, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 202, 204, 205, 206
Kefauver Committee, 45, 72, 164, 177, 180, 183, 192, 194 ff., 230, 243, 261
Keith, 16
Kelleher, Black Jack, 207
Kelley, Major Edward, 56
Kelly, Ed, 36
Kenny, Wilbur, 51
Klein, Arthur G., 244
Kronheim, Milton, 165
La Fontaine, Jimmy, 67, 173, 175, 176, 230, 232
La Guardia, Mayor, 36, 103, 108, 164, 186
Lafayette Park, 19
Lafayette Square, 91, 92, 93, 110
Lano, Sam, 69
Lansky, Meyer, 175
Latham, Henry, 161, 162
Lattimore, Owen, 105, 159
Lautrelle, Nathaniel, 147, 148
Lawyers Guild, 169
Ledroit Park, 51
L’Enfant, Major Pierre, 12, 19
Lesbians, 94, 95
Lewis, John L., 14, 164, 165
Lewis, Snags, 66, 67, 173, 175, 210, 225
Lichtauer, Nate, 165
Limousines, 286
Lincoln Barbeque, 50
Liquor, 123 ff.
Liquor, bootleg, 50
Liquor laws, 123, 124
Liquor, legal closing, 31, 65
Lloyd, David Garrison, 159
Lobbying, 155 ff.
Local government, 5
Loew’s Capitol, 16
Logan Hotel, 40
Loose ladies, 14
Los Angeles, 3
Lotus, 132
Lowenthal, Max, 104, 105, 171
Lucas, Scott, 160, 196
Luchow’s, 18
Luciano, Charles Lucky, 24, 108, 182, 184
Lully, Julius, 19
Lund, Nina, 147
Lyre’s Club, 125, 129
MacArthur, General Douglas, 143
MacDonald, 232
MacLeon, Evelyn Walsh, 135
Madden, Owney “The Killer,” 230
Madre, Odessa, 49
Mafia, 24, 49, 60, 67, 108, 130, 160, 164, 172–176, 177 ff., 195, 199–201, 205, 243, 244, 251, 255, 259, 260
Mafia Grand Council, 205
Magnuson, Senator Warren, 87, 143
Mai Fong Restaurant, 26, 59
“Mamma Liz,” 53
Mann Act, 86
Maragon, John, 158, 165, 166, 186
Marcantonio, Congressman Vito, 36
Marijuana, 113
Marriage, 287
Martin’s Bar, 11
Maryland, 6, 20, 26, 62, 63, 64, 65, 207
Masseria, The Boss, 182
Mayflower Hotel, 13, 15, 18, 132
“Mayor” of Chinatown, 61
McCreedy, Dorothy A., 188
McGrath, J. Howard, 186, 187, 196, 213
McGurn, Machine Gun Jack, 184
McKeldin, Theodore Roosevelt, 261
Medical, 288
Mencken, H. L., 22
Messall, Victor, 164
Meserole, Patsy, 127, 128
Mesta, Perle, 137, 138, 139
Metropolitan Police, 4, 173, 210, 216, 221, 226
Meyer, Johnny, 160
Meyerberg, Michael, 17
Meyers, Mike, 66, 67, 173, 175
Miami Club, 264, 265, 266
Mickey’s, 93
Midday manners, 288
Midnight manners, 288
Milligan, Maurice, 190, 191
Miscegenation, 39
Mission Row, 32
Mitchell Grill, 25
Model agencies, 81
Models, 80, 146
Morals violations, 51
Morley, Elizabeth, 85
Morgan, Sam, 68
Movie palaces, 12
Moy, George, 61
Mugging, 52, 53
Murder. Inc, 149. 191
Murphy, Tom, 197
Murray, Arthur, 82
N.A.A.C.P., 39, 41, 43. 48, 136
Nabuco, Ambassador Mauricio, 148
Narcotics, 49, 51, 60, 61, 107 ff., 122, 271
Narcotics Act, 108
Narcotics Bureau, 251
Narcotics, Diplomatic sources, 113
Nathan, Robert, 159
National Airport, 1
National Park Police, 226
National Syndicate, 172, 173, 177 ff.
National Theatre, 16
Negro after-hours clubs, 42
Negro crime, 46, 47, 48, 49
Negro population, 4, 35
Negroes, 9, 20, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 68, 102, 112, 119, 260
Nesline, Joseph, 174
New Colonial, 26
New Deal, 11
New Dealers, 8
New Willard, 13
Night clubs, 132
Niles, David K., 14, 165, 166, 196, 197
Nitti, Frank, 184
North West, 12 ff.
Norton, Mrs. Mary, 244
Numbers racket, 1, 49, 55, 207, 208
Nunan, Joe, 158, 186
O-Girls, 75
Oasis Club, 263
Occidental, 19
O’Connell, Jerry J., 169
O’Connell, Richard, 128
O’Conor, Senator Herbert, 64, 201, 261
Off Beat Club, 51
Olmsted’s Restaurant. 18
On Leong building, 61
On Leong Tong, 57, 60, 61
Oscar of the Waldorf, 19
Palm Grill, 128
Park Police, 70
Parlor-houses, 269
Party-Girls, 83
Patterson, Eleanor Cissie, 20, 135
Patterson, Mrs. Robert, 138
Pawnbrokers, 65
Pawnbroker’s Row, 31
Peacock Alley, 14
Pearson, Drew, 199
Pecora, Ferdinand, 197
Pendergast, Tom, 190
Penguin, 33
Pentagon, 71, 72, 73
Pepper, Claude, 160
Per capita income, 4
Permanent Central Opium Board, 109
Peron, Eva, 148
Pershing, General John J., 143
Piccadilly, 269
Pinball machines, 212
Pinchot, Mrs. Gifford, 136
Podell, Julie, 186, 187
Poland, 109
Police, 220 ff.
Policy-sellers, 69
Policy slips, 1, 50, 55, 207
Political spies, 247
Pollack, Jack, 260
Pope, Gene, 186
Porter, Paul A., 158
Postal Inspectors, 250
Potts, William, 110
Powell, Congressman Adam Clayton, 45
Pressler, Nancy, 24
Prince Georges County, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 175, 176, 210, 233
Proctor, Peggy, 26
Prospect House, 10
Prostitutes, 21–26, 34, 59, 66, 274
Prostitution, 69, 78, 86 ff.
Protective Association, 54
Protocol, 289
Public relief, 43
Public Utilities Commission, 13
Purcell, Gerry, 181
Purity Lunch and Grill, 25
Purple Cross Gang, 54
Queen of the Fences, 49
Quinn, Gary, 127, 172, 207
Quonsett Inn, 56, 67
Race problem, 16
Ramos, Ramon, 137, 138
Rand, Ben B., 161
Red spies, 100
Reefers, 49, 50, 55, 121
Rent party, 55
Restaurants, 12
Ricca, 175
Ricci, Tony, 174
Robert, Evie, 136
Roberts, Charles M., 116
Roberts, Jim Yellow, 49
Robeson, Paul, 103
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 9, 10, 16, 38, 40, 41, 43, 102, 104, 134
Roosevelt, Elliott, 160
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 97, 132, 188
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 162, 164, 254
Rosen, Nig, 175, 176
Rosenberg, Anna, 167
Russian radio, 152
Sailors, 269
Sailors’ Row, 33, 34
Sand Bar, 93
Saturday Evening Post, 38
Saunders, Kay, 26
Scheve, Theodore Little Joe, 174
Schools, public, 41
Schulman, Robert Ryebread, 174
Schultz, Dutch, 45
Scott, Hazel, 45
Seal, Monk, 67
Secret Service, 251
Senate Crime Investigating Committee 64,
See also Kefauver Committee
Seto, Kwon, 61
Seventh and T Club, 51
Sex movies, 31
Shah of Persia, 147
Shaw, Carolyn Hagner, 140, 141
Shepherd, Alexander Robey, 36, 234
Sheriff, Earl, 66
Ship’s Cafe, 33
Shopping, 18
Shoreham, 13, 15
Show Boat Bar, 94
Sicilians, 180
Siegel, Bugsy, 177, 182
Silver Spring, Maryland, 63
Simpkins, “Whitey,” 49
Skid Row, 16, 30, 32, 33, 99, 261, 263
Slums, 38, 51, 122
Smiley, Alan, 187
Smith, Paul T., 166
Sniper, The, 56
Society, 134 ff.
Soviet Russia, 107, 109, 151
Stage-crafters Club, 126, 127, 128
Stanton Park, 93
Star Dust Club, 50
State Department 97, 108, 146
Statler Hotel, 13, 25
Steelman, Dr. John 165
Strip-joints, 64
Suburbs, 63
Sulgrave, 141
Sunrise, 128
Supreme Head of the International Mafia, 182
Sussman brothers, 172, 207
Swindlers, 277
T Men, 44, 78, 191
Tammany Hall, 243
Taxi dancers, 82
Taxi talk, 289
Temperance Court, 51
Tenderloin, 21
Terminal Police, 70
Theatre, 12
Theft of government checks, 55
Thomas Circle, 19, 113
Thors, Minister Thor, 150
Tipping, 290
Top Side, 127
Traffic tickets, 290
Transportation, 291
Transvestites, 92
Treasury Agents, 250
Treasury Intelligence, 184
Truitt, Max, 157, 162, 163
Truman, Bess, 135, 137, 138
Truman, Harry, 45, 137, 142, 157, 158, 190, 194, 265
Turf-and-Grid, 128
20-11 Club, 51
UN Victory Girls, 88
UNRRA, 103, 154
U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 236
U. S. Bureau of Narcotics, 109, 183
Underworld, 171 ff.
Unione Siciliano, 49, 182
United Mine Workers, 164, 167
United Nations, 107, 153
United Nations secretariat, 103
United Nations Social Cub, 129
United States Department of Justice, 66
United States Treasury Department, 112
Vane, Mary Lou, 85
Vaughan, General Harry, 126, 127, 140, 142, 165, 166, 186
Velde, Harold, 100
Venereal disease, 23
Vice, 2, 25
Victoria Hotel, 267
Virginia, 6, 20, 62, 63, 65, 68, 69, 207
Vote, 7, 62
Wagner, Robert F. Jr., 164
Wakefield, Alan A., 98
Wall, Virginia, 85
Wallgren, Mon, 160
Walters, Al, 88
Ward, Charles, 189
Wardman Park, 13
Warring, Emmitt, 10, 11, 172, 173, 207, 232
Washington Criminal Justice Association, 214, 216
Water Barge, 17
Webber, Palmer, 168, 169
Wechsler, Nathan, 161
Weekend Burglars, 121
Wheeler, Burton K., 158
Wheeler, George Shaw, 171
White House Police, 70
Whitehead, George Francis, 28
Whitelaw, 50
Whore Dance, 266
Whores, 53, 76, 262
Willard Hotel, 13, 43
Williams, Johnny, 174
Willie Pye arrest, 217
Wilson Steamship Line, 87
Wiretapping, 245 ff.
Wolfson, Lou, 192, 193
Wong, Sam, 56
Wood, Roy H., 99
WPA, 9
Wyatt, Wilson, 163
“Y,” 51
Yee, 61
Yoking, 53, 54
Yamasee, 127