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1935 in organized crime

January 30 - Frank Milano, former boss of the Cleveland crime syndicate, flees the United States for Mexico.

1944 in organized crime

Benjamin Zuckerman "Zookie the Bookie", Chicago syndicate mobster involved in illegal gambling

Benjamin "Zookie the Bookie" Zuckerman, a member of the Chicago syndicate involved in illegal gambling, is killed.

1987 Defender Selection Series

The third syndicate was a well funded group known as Taskforce '87 and headed by Perth businessman Kevin Parry. Taskforce '87 built three boats, Kookaburra (KA-11), Kookaburra II (KA-12) skippered by Peter Gilmour and Kookaburra III (KA-15) skippered by Iain Murray.

Adam Ohriner

Adam made his debut for Pro Wrestling Syndicate at PWS Super Card 2012, under the name The Big O, where he defeated Bill Carr and Justin Corino and Nick Brubaker in a dark match.

Alexander George Gurney

Gurney was in England in June 1946, as part of an Australian Press Syndicate sent specifically to view the Victory Parade.

Arkengarthdale

The shooting estate is currently shared between the Duke of Norfolk and a Dutch shooting syndicate.

Belvoir St Theatre

The building was purchased by a syndicate of people and there are currently 600 owners including noted actors, writers and performers: Robyn Archer, Gillian Armstrong, Peter Carey, Ruth Cracknell, Judy Davis, Mel Gibson, Max Gillies, Dorothy Hewett, Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Dame Joan Sutherland, Patrick White, David Williamson, Neil Armfield, Mike Willesee, Colin Friels, and Gwen Plumb.

Bet Twice

Bet Twice was owned by a syndicate of approximately three dozen that included baseball players Pete Rose and Garry Maddox.

Canadian Aviation Corps

1 Burgess-Dunne two-seater tailless swept-wing pusher floatplane built by Blair-Atholl Syndicate Limited of England

Central Press

Central Press Association, an American newspaper syndicate that operated from 1910 to 1971

Cindy Elavsky

She began working for Reed Brennan Media Associates in Orlando (a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, also linked to King Features/North American Syndicate) in 2001, working her way up from Proofreader to Assistant Managing Editor to Syndicate Editor.

Colony Sports Club

Following the end of syndicate gambling operations in Havana by the Castro government in 1959, Lansky sought to expand his operations elsewhere.

Dame Pattie

Due to the restrictions on use of equipment and materials sourced from outside the defenders country, the Australian syndicate had to obtain permission from the New York Yacht Club to buy the edge grain fir from Stone Brothers Logging, Maple Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Darby Conley

Comics syndicate United Media agreed in 1999 to publish Conley's new strip Get Fuzzy about an anthropomorphic cat, Bucky, and dog, Satchel, living with their single young-male owner, Rob Wilco, which premiered on September 6, 1999 in 75 papers.

Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company

The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was a railway company formed by a syndicate of Victorian capitalists to construct a railway from Moama to Deniliquin in New South Wales, Australia.

El Mokhtar

Black Stallion trainer Corky Randall also liked El Mokhtar, and, at Randall's urging, the movie studio bought out the entire 40-member syndicate in order to secure El Mokhtar for the second Black Stallion film.

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater

He was the leading member of the syndicate which purchased and partly resold the famous Orleans Collection of old master paintings in 1798 (including Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto), and most of his purchases are still held by the Egerton family.

Ilkka Heilä

However, working in a post office replaced professional self-fulfillment of artistic tendencies the nearly 20 years period, until then he created Bulls-syndicate of his comic strip B. Virtanen and took part in comic competition arranged by newspaper Uusi Suomi in 1989.

Infamous Syndicate

They also contributed to Ami Suzuki's song titled Please stay tuned (featuring Infamous Syndicate) from her album INFINITY EIGHTEEN Vol.2 released in 2000.

Jacob Landau

He had a falling-out with the Reporters Committee during the late 1980s, after which he left to write a popular column in the Newhouse News syndicate of daily newspapers.

James Carson

Captain James Carson, pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the five volume "Saddle Boys" series

Jayme Garfinkel

Garfinkel was a member of CNSP from 1987 until 1991, and was President of the Syndicate of Private Insurance and Capitalization Companies of the State of São Paulo from 1989 to 1990.

Joey Giardello

He had a small role as a man from "The Syndicate" in the 1975 movie Moonrunners.

John Gruber

His side projects include Markdown, a lightweight markup language, and a podcast called The Talk Show that he hosts on the Mule Radio Syndicate network.

Joseph Stacher

Joseph "Doc" Stacher (b. 1902-d. 1977) was a Jewish syndicate leader who helped bring together the Jewish and Italian Mafia into a national organized crime syndicate.

Justin Credible

He wrestled for the Pro Wrestling Syndicate promotion, along with fellow original ECW wrestlers Sabu, Danny Doring and Julio Dinero, as well as making appearances for the Insane Clown Posse owned Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

Kais al-Hilali

His death was marked across the world by with an outpouring of art from saddened and enraged political cartoonists many drawing their personal take on al-Hilali's death including Jeff Danziger New York Times Syndicate cartoonist in New York, Stavro Jabro -Lebonon, Cristian Sampaio -Portugal, Butti Manfuelli -Corsica, Avi Katz - Israel, Riber Hansso -Sweden, Saul Cabanillas - Spain, and Michael Kithla and Giorgio Foraltina.

Keishu Tanaka

On October 11, 2012 the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho reported that 30 years ago Tanaka had connections to a group affiliated to the Inagawa-kai yakuza syndicate, that he had made an appearance and made a speech at a party hosted by a yakuza boss, and that he had also acted as a matchmaker for an executive member of the group.

Low Profile

The duo made its debut with Rhyme Syndicate Records, on a compilation album produced by Ice-T and Afrika Islam, before becoming a duo on Profile Records.

March for Equality and Against Racism

In 1983, the Socialist Prime Minister of France Pierre Mauroy, the Minister of the Interior Gaston Defferre, and the Minister of Labour Jean Auroux said about the strikers of the CGT's syndicate from the factory of Renault-Billancourt, that they are mainly "immigrants workers", and accused them of being manipulated by "integrists".

Marion K. Sanders

Under the name Marion Klein she was a free lance feature writer for a small news syndicate, as a stringer for The Toronto Star, which published several pieces (November 1925), reviewed books for The Book Review (March 1926), performed minor editorial chores for the Theater Guild Quarterly for which she also wrote a piece (April 1926), wrote several piece for the Chicago Journal under the byline Marionette (May 29, 1926, June 9, 13, 20 and 27,1926).

Monty's Pass

Monty's Pass was the winner of the 2003 Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, when ridden by Barry Geraghty, trained by Jimmy Mangan and running in the colours of the Dee Racing Syndicate, a group of owners based in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, and led by Blackpool born bingo hall owner Mike Futter.

Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia

In the late 1890s part of it was purchased by a syndicate of Edward Wittenoom, a politician and pastoralist; James Hicks and C. L. W. Clifton.

North American Newspaper Alliance

A notable event late in the syndicate’s history occurred when a freelance correspondent, Lucianne Goldberg joined the press corps covering candidate George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign, claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, an affiliate of NANA.

Opium Wars

The monopoly began in earnest in 1773, as the British Governor-General of Bengal abolished the opium syndicate at Patna.

Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company

In 1918 the Carib Syndicate, a concern owned by Americans, bought the Barco oil concession in Colombia.

Ranelagh Gardens

In 1741, the house and grounds were purchased by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Sir Thomas Robinson MP, and the Gardens opened to the public the following year.

Rocco Pranno

For a time Pranno's brother controlled all political offices in the town, while Pranno himself ran a crime syndicate from his office table at the Club D'Or on North Mannheim Road.

Sheldon Gang

In the closing days of Prohibition and with the emergence of Charles Luciano's National Crime Syndicate the Sheldon Gang, like most of the remaining bootlegging gangs, were absorbed into the syndicate by 1932.

SS Commodore

The event was immortalized when passenger and author Stephen Crane, who was traveling as a war correspondent for the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate, wrote the classic short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.

The Dream Syndicate

Duck suggested the name "The Dream Syndicate" in reference to Tony Conrad's early 1960s New York experimental ensemble (better known as the Theater of Eternal Music), whose members included John Cale.

The Gay Bride

Gold-digging chorus girl Mary (Carole Lombard) marries the head of a bootlegging syndicate, gangster "Shoots" Magiz (Nat Pendleton), but the illegal liquor business goes down the drain when Prohibition is repealed, and Shoots is knocked off by rival Daniel Dingle (Sam Hardy).

The Other Press

The Other Press is also a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers across Canada.

The Radio Network

The company was bought out by a syndicate that included The New Zealand Herald and New Zealand Listener publisher Wilson & Horton and United States radio company Clear Channel Communications; Wilson & Horton was then purchased by Ireland-based media conglomerate Independent News & Media, and onsold to Independent's Australian subsidiary APN.

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

In 1985, Harmony Gold edited and rewrote the series with The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada into Robotech, to syndicate on weekday television and to promote a Revell model line.

Web Business Management System

Blog - ability to post blogs and syndicate via RSS feeds

William Harding Jackson

To the occasional amusement of many politicians and Washington, DC insiders, there was a George Jackson at CIA serving on the National Board of Estimates Staff, and other members of the 'Jackson Committee' which included the Committee's Chief of Staff, Wayne Jackson, a former office-mate of Bill Jackson's at the law firm Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, and C. D. Jackson from the private sector Time-Life-Fortune magazine syndicate.

Władysław Horodecki

In 1928 on the invitation of the same company Horodecki moved to Tehran becoming a chief architect of the "Syndicate on the Design of Persian Railways".


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