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Sacco and Vanzetti
31, Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Italian: [1888-1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts. Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. Regardless of the uncertainty surrounding their actual guilt, their controversial trial and execution made them symbols of intolerance, racism and injustice, with most historians considering their conviction unfair due to prejudice against immigrants and radicals. Wikipedia
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
87; The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage when between four and six men entered, two of whom were disguised as police officers. The seven men were lined up facing a wall and shot with Thompson machine guns and a shotgun; seventy rounds were fired from the Thompsons, and one cartridge was discharged from the shotgun. Six of the victims died immediately; one lived for a short while but refused to identify the killers. Wikipedia; 114;
Santa's Elves
103, they had Hicks a parcel which is a ticking time bomb. One is named Sven.
Schaufl, Ulrich "Ooly"
65, Hicks "old mentor" from North Division High School; 113;
Schultz, Mr.
103, what Santa's Elves call Hicks; 111;
Sfuzzino, Francesco "Finger of Death"
109, April's Uncle Cici
Sheldon
93; the "apron" (i.e., bartender) at the bar in the Keno salon in No Man's Land;
Smith, Jabbo (1908-1991)
26, an American jazz musician, known for his virtuoso playing on the trumpet. In the 1930s, Smith moved to Milwaukee, which would be his main base for many years, alternating with returns to New York. In Milwaukee he collaborated with saxophonist Bill Johnson. Wikipedia More...
SONGS / TUNES
"Puttin' on the Ritz," 5; "Way Marie" — The song is actually "Oh Marie" (often misheard as "Way Marie"), originally "Maria, Marì." The original lyrics for the song were written by Vincenzo Russo. The music was composed by Eduardo Di Capua, a well-known Italian composer, in 1889. A very popular song amongst Italians, 13; "Come Back to Sorrento," 26 — Neapolitan song "Torna a Surriento" ("Come Back to Sorrento") composed by Ernesto De Curtis (1875–1937). The lyrics were written by his brother, Giambattista De Curtis; “Home to Pasadena” - Al Jolson, 44; "On the Sunny Side of the Street," 53; Horst Wessell Song, 64; "On, Wisconsin," 67; "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," 102; "Those Little White Lies" (Annette Hanshaw), 109; "o mio babbino caro" (Puccini aria), 109; "Dinah, is there anything finer," a lyric from the 1925 song by Harry Akst (music) and Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young (lyrics); it became an early jazz (and pop) standard, 111-112;
SS Christopher Columbus
118; This American passenger ship, a whaleback-type steamer, was built specifically for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (hence the name). It carried visitors back and forth between downtown Chicago and the fairgrounds at Jackson Park, reportedly transporting 1.7 million passengers that year — more than any other single vessel on the lakes. After the exposition, it served as an excursion steamer for the Goodrich Transit Line, running pleasure cruises between Chicago, Milwaukee, and other lake ports.
Stecchino, Michele "Kelly"
111, "an old-time Third Ward hardhead dating back to the Vito Guardalabene era" and bombsmith;
