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  2. The October Man - Wikipedia

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    The October Man is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced.A man is suspected of murder, and the lingering effects of a brain injury he sustained in an earlier accident, as well as an intensive police investigation, make him begin to doubt whether he is innocent.

  3. Domitian - Wikipedia

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    Domitian (/ d ə ˈ m ɪ ʃ ən,-i ən /, də-MISH-ən, -⁠ee-ən; Latin: Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. The son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus, his two predecessors on the throne, he was the last member of the Flavian dynasty.

  4. Joseph Petrosino - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Petrosino (born Giuseppe Petrosino, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe petroˈziːno;-ˈsiːno]; August 30, 1860 – March 12, 1909) was an Italian-born New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who was a pioneer in the fight against organized crime.

  5. Billy Bathgate (film) - Wikipedia

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    Billy Behan is a poor Irish American teenager from the Bronx in the 1935. One day, he catches the attention of wealthy Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz.Changing his last name to Bathgate after a local street, Billy goes to work for Schultz's organization, serving mostly as a gofer for Schultz.

  6. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Case history; Prior: 278 A.D. 253, 104 N.Y.S.2d 740 (App. Div. 1951), affirmed, 303 N.Y. 242, 101 N.E.2d 665 (1951).Holding; Provisions of the New York Education Law that allow a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious", were a "restraint on freedom of speech", and thereby a violation of ...

  7. Cultural depictions of Domitian - Wikipedia

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    Domitian appears as a peripheral character, and is named as the primary suspect in the murder being investigated in the first novel, Silver Pigs. The companion series, featuring Falco's adoptive daughter, Flavia Albia, takes place during the reign of Domitian. Master and God (2012), a historical novel by Davis, centers around the reign of ...

  8. 1940s in organized crime - Wikipedia

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    April – George Scalise, New York labor racketeer and president of the Building Service and Employee's International Union of New York, is indicted for extortion. May 23 – Murder, Inc. members Harry Maione and Frank Abbandando , based on the testimony of Abe Reles, are convicted of the 1937 murder of Brooklyn loan shark George "Whitey" Rudnick .

  9. Vito Marcantonio - Wikipedia

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    He was born on December 10, 1902, in the impoverished Italian Harlem ghetto of East Harlem, New York City. [1] He attended New York City public schools, becoming the only member of his class from East Harlem to graduate from De Witt Clinton High School in Hell's Kitchen, [citation needed] and eventually received his LL.B. from the New York ...