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Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster who was the rackets boss in Brooklyn before becoming a top crime boss in Chicago during the Prohibition era. Mentor of Al Capone and rival of Dion O’Bannion, Bugs Moran, and Hymie Weiss, Torrio was one of the founders of modern organized crime in America.
Al Capone, American Prohibition-era gangster who dominated organized crime in Chicago from 1925 to 1931. In 1931 Capone was indicted for federal income-tax evasion and was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was confined in the Atlanta penitentiary and Alcatraz before being released in 1939.
Recently, Tucker Carlson hosted an historian who was reporting on a poll of his colleagues that ranked the 10 greatest presidents in American history. In order, they were Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
Considering who are the currently employed historians, the biggest surprise is that Reagan beat out Obama.
These polls take place every four years, and it was reported that during that span, the presidents who most improved their numbers were Ulysses Grant, who jumped from 33rd to 20th place, for no discernible reason; George W. Bush, who improved from 36th place to 29th, mainly, I assume, on the basis of his paintings of veterans and immigrants; Eisenhower, who went from ninth to fifth; and Calvin Coolidge, who crept up silently from 27th to 24th.