Authors: John Dickie
report on mafia
Notarbartolo trial
Sant’Elia (nobleman)
Santapaola, Nitto (“the Hunter”)
Santino, Umberto
Saturnia,
SS (liner)
Scaglioni, Pietro
Scarface
(film)
Scarpato’s (restaurant; Coney Island)
Scarpinato, Roberto
Scelba, Mario
Schifani, Rosaria
Schifani, Vito
Sciascia, Leonardo
The Day of the Owl
Scopelliti, Antonio
Scorsese, Martin
Senate Special Committee to Investigate
Crime in Interstate Commerce (US)
Servadio, Gaia
“Sheets Committee” (antimafia organization)
Sicilcasa (building company)
Sicily: psyche and culture
cattle and grain trade
citrus trade
early history
emigration to US
Fasci (peasant movement)
poverty
sulphur industry
Post-WWI mayhem
post-WWII separatist movement
Siino, Filippo
Siino, Francesco
Sindona, Michele
Sing Sing (US prison)
Slavonia,
SS (liner)
Socialist Ideal, The
(news-sheet)
Socialist Party (Italy): political manuevering
and demise
Berlusconi link
mafia overtures
Sonnino, Sidney
Spadaro, Tommaso
Spampinato, Giovanni
Spanò (Sicilian restaurant)
Spatola, Alfonso
Spatola, Rosario
St Valentine’s Day massacre
Stella, Don Constantino
Stromboli
(film)
Sullivan, Tim (“Dry Dollar”)
supergrass
see
defectors
Tajani, Diego
Terranova, Cesare
Terranova, Ciro
terrorism, right-wing: “strategy of tension”
Times, The
tobacco trafficking
Torretta, Pietro
Trapani basketball club
Tribuna, La
(newspaper)
Truman, President Harry S.
Ucciardone (prison; Palermo)
United States of America
Chicago
Democratic Party
Detroit
Kansas City
Las Vegas
mafia mobility
mafia “trademark” control
New Orleans
Prohibition
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Sicilian immigration
Williamsburg
see also
New York
Ustica (prison; Italy)
Valachi, Joseph
The Valachi Papers
Vassallo, Don Ciccio
Verga, Giovanni
Verro, Bernardino
Verro, Giuseppina Pace Umana
via dei Georgofili (Florence): car bomb
via dei Gladiator (Rome): bomb
via Palestro (Milan): bomb
Villa Deliella (Palermo)
Villabate (town)
Villalba (town)
“Operation Husky”
wounding of Li Causi
Vitale, Leonardo
Vizzini, Don Calogero (“Zu Calò”; US codename “Bull Frog”)
“Operation Husky”
Miccichè (estate) takeover
Vizzini, Monsignor Giovanni
Vizzini, Raimonda
Wagner, Richard:
Parsifal
Whitaker, Audrey
Whitaker, Effie
Whitaker, Joseph (“Pip”)
Whitaker, Joshua (“Joss”)
Zaza, Michele (“Mad Mike”)
COSA NOSTRA
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