On January 17th, 1899 the most infamous gangster to walk the streets of Chicago, Illinois was born. This man is the true American Gangster. This guy has been incarcerated, and was involved in some very terrible crimes, but also just some minor crimes. Alphonse Capone (Al Capone) is the most infamous gangster/mobster that had been seen in the city of Chicago. His childhood to his first crime to his grave, Al Capone had a very interesting life.…
Hoover was born in Washington D.C. on January 1, 1895. His parents names were Anna Marie Scheitlin and Dickerson Naylor Hoover Sr. His sister's names were Sadie Marguerite Hoover and Lillian Hoover. He also had a brother named Dickerson Naylor Hoover Jr. He obtained a Bachelors of Law from The George Washington University Law School in 1916. Immediately after getting his LL.M degree, Hoover was hired by the Justice Department to work in the War Emergency Division. He accepted the job on July 27, 1917. The job only paid $990 a year, which is only equivalent to $18,000 in today's money. This job kept him out of the draft. He then became the head of the Divisions Alien Enemy Bureau. His job was to arrest and jail disloyal foreigners without trial.…
“Al Capone" was one of the most famous gangsters in the united states. He created a criminal organization in the 1920s, during the US Prohibition making almost $100,000,000 of illegally gained money annually. he did set up a laundry through which he converted the profits of criminal activities with the purpose of covering their origins.…
Hoover was born January 1, 1895 in Washington, D.C. to a low-level federal administrator. Hoover earned a bachelor and masters degree in law from 1916-1917 at Washington university. He worked at the Department of Justice in alien registration. Hoover got promoted to the head of the General Intelligence Division where he noted radical activities like The Red Scare.…
Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch,Iowa and lived near the Mississippi River. But when he was six years old his father died,but then when three years went by his mother also died as well. Then he had to move to Oregon with his aunt and uncle for the rest of his life. When he grew older he married a woman named Lou Henry and in November 6,1928 he was elected president of the United States. Within seven weeks,he took a tour around Latin America and then promised to establish some of the policies.…
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (also known as “Scarface”) was a successful Italian-American gangster who obtained fame during the Prohibition Era. Capone was a big part of organized crime in Chicago and was the leader in the Italian Mafia. However, this would all change for Capone when he was arrested in 1931.…
Hoover believed that our economy goes through cycles, and thought that the government should let things run its course and believed that things would eventually improve. He thought this way all until his last year as president when he finally started getting the government involved. Trying to end the depression hoover created laws and programs like the National Credit Corporation, the…
Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn and went on to become the most famous gangster in American History. When Capone was 19, he married Mae Coughlin just a few weeks after the birth of their child, Albert. Now, as a husband and father, Capone wanted to do right by his family. So Capone moved to Baltimore and started a job as a bookkeeper for a construction company. But when Capone’s father died of a heart attack in 1920, Torrio invited him to come to Chicago and Al jumped at the opportunity.…
Alphonse Capone was the most infamous mobster in the 1920s. He was “like any other man. ‘All I do is supply a demand’” (brainyquote.com ). During the prohibition era, Capone was the boss and co-founder of the Chicago Outfit. Although he is known for the horrific things he was involved in, his childhood was not all that amazing either.…
Throughout United States’ history, many great and skillful individuals single handedly changed the direction of our nation’s fate. Individuals such as George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Junior, and John F. Kennedy are people who are remembered the most frequently. There are however individuals who established a country to begin with for others to help lead and guide, yet somehow they are the most forgotten. There’s one unsung hero, who most most only recognize as a signature on a legal contract, or as the ad for another house insurance company. That undermined founding father, was John Hancock.…
When he was 18 years old he went to the University of Chicago , majoring in commerce, law and political science. He graduated as the top third of his class in 1925 and was hired as an investigator for the Retail Credit Company. He moved on to the Chicago branch of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1927 where he became an agent. Ness was moved to the Justice Department in 1928 to work with the Prohibition Bureau, responsible for cleaning up the practice of bootlegging.…
I think Benedict Arnold deserves this dishonor as America's greatest traitor. It is true that Arnold helped very much at the Battle of Quebec and Saratoga, getting his leg wounded. Arnold wanted the fame and the money for his country though. Benedict Arnold’s father was an early Patriot, so Arnold probably followed the lead of his father. He wanted to restore his family name to whatever the cost, but instead he ruined it. The James Reed Council had been closely investigating his actions. Benedict Arnold was constantly going to Loyalists’ houses, dancing with the women, and having parties with them. Benedict Arnold used George Washington selfishly, for his own purpose to be in charge of West Point, one of the most important forts for America. In the reply of Washington saying that he wanted to postpone the trial, Arnold said, “Delay in the present case is worse than death.” It was just some time later that he met with Joseph Stansbury, a close Loyalist, to discuss his ideas about joining the British army. There he sent coded messages to John Andre to discuss with Henry Clinton. He plotted a plan to get rid of the American army. Benedict wanted to be on the winning side of the war, so he could get most of the credit. Arnold was even trying to plot more plans when Ande died. He also used Joshua…
New attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer recognized Hoover’s idealistic enthusiasm + hired him as special assistant in charge of anti-radical activities…
Al Capone, the Big Fella, was named one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. Capone was a bootlegger during the Prohibition Era in the Roaring Twenties. Capone prospered off the prohibition of alcohol. Throughout his life as a gangster he moved up in ranks and led himself to the top of the bootlegging industry. If there never was a prohibition, he would have never been as known as he is today.…
Andrew Carnegie, the ambitious and skilled king of steel during the late 1800s, was the most famous man in business of his time. He certainly had his many flaws and as the most famous American of those days, his faults were highly talked about. Carnegie was not perfect and made his share of choices that many people saw as misdeeds, but that is like how everyone in the world is. Carnegie was a hero of his day because he showed the characteristics of being capable, responsible, and philanthropic.…