The Roaring Twenties. The Prohibition Laws, the Eighteenth Amendment & Volstead Act, had just been passed banning...
The Roaring Twenties
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Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa
Frank Sheeran was a high ranking labor union official with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, he was also one...
Weapons – The Shillelagh, Shillelagh Law & Faction Fights
The Shillelagh (pronounced shi - lay - la) is the name for a traditional Irish stick or stick of blackthorn wood, its...
Frank Hague The Boss of Jersey City
Frank Hague was born on January 17,1876, to Irish immigrants Margaret Fagen/Fagin and John Hague from County Cavan,...
Joseph Vincent Moriarty – The Numbers Racket
Joseph Vincent Moriarty also known as Newsboy Moriarty, was a mobster and ran a numbers racket in Hudson County, New...
Prohibition in New Jersey
The controversy over the nation’s Prohibition Amendment spilled over into New Jersey politics. Republicans, whose base...