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November 05, 1928
THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 5, 1928
* Arnold Rothstein shot, near death (1st report)
* New York City gambler
* Best title to have in
This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "ROTHSTEIN, GAMBLER, MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT; REFUSES TO TALK" "Critically Wounded, He Is Found in Service Entrance to Park Central Hotel" "A PISTOL IN THE STREET" "MOTIVE OF ATTACK SECRET" and more with smaller subheads. (see) Lengthy text.
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning with little margin wear, otherwise in good condition.
* Arnold Rothstein shot, near death (1st report)
* New York City gambler
* Best title to have in
This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "ROTHSTEIN, GAMBLER, MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT; REFUSES TO TALK" "Critically Wounded, He Is Found in Service Entrance to Park Central Hotel" "A PISTOL IN THE STREET" "MOTIVE OF ATTACK SECRET" and more with smaller subheads. (see) Lengthy text.
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning with little margin wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipwedia notes: Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein (January 17, 1882–November 6, 1928) was a New York businessman and gambler who became a famous kingpin of organized crime. Rothstein was also widely reputed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed. His notoriety inspired several fictional characters based on his life, including "Meyer Wolfsheim" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby,[1] and "Nathan Detroit" in the Damon Runyon story The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown, which was made into the musical Guys and Dolls.
According to crime writer Leo Katcher, Rothstein "transformed organized crime from a thuggish activity by hoodlums into a big business, run like a corporation, with himself at the top."[2] According to Rich Cohen, Rothstein was the person who first saw in Prohibition a business opportunity, a means to enormous wealth, who "understood the truths of early century capitalism (hypocrisy, exclusion, greed) and came to dominate them". Rothstein was the Moses of the Jewish gangsters, according to Cohen, the progenitor, a rich man's son who showed the young hoodlums of the Bowery how to have style; indeed, the man who, the Sicilian-American gangster Lucky Luciano would later say, "taught me how to dress."
According to crime writer Leo Katcher, Rothstein "transformed organized crime from a thuggish activity by hoodlums into a big business, run like a corporation, with himself at the top."[2] According to Rich Cohen, Rothstein was the person who first saw in Prohibition a business opportunity, a means to enormous wealth, who "understood the truths of early century capitalism (hypocrisy, exclusion, greed) and came to dominate them". Rothstein was the Moses of the Jewish gangsters, according to Cohen, the progenitor, a rich man's son who showed the young hoodlums of the Bowery how to have style; indeed, the man who, the Sicilian-American gangster Lucky Luciano would later say, "taught me how to dress."
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