Umbrella Mike

Umbrella Mike
Author: Brock W. Yates
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781560257769

Traces the story of gangster Michael Joseph Boyle, describing his activities as a corrupt leader of Chicago's most powerful union, his friendly relationship with Al Capone, and the controversial events surrounding the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup competition.

Changing Society

Changing Society
Author: Bob Breving
Publisher: Charles Kerr
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 9780882862804

"Nineteen years ago when I started teaching union members at Roosevelt University, I knew very little about labor history and neither did the students. As we went on a mutual journey, I began to learn about labor history through the papers the students wrote. I read and wrote about John Peter Altgeld, Mother Jones, Walter Reuther, A. Philip Randolph and Eugene V. Debs. A. Philip Randolph, a prominent leader in the civil rights movement is almost never referred to in the telling of the civil rights struggle. I decided to tell also about Delores Huerta and Regina Polk, women important to today. These biographies focus on their contributions to improve the lives of working people." --Bob Breving, teacher at DePaul Labor Education Center in Chicago.

The Fleagle Gang

The Fleagle Gang
Author: N. T. Betz
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 1420817620

True crime from the roaring 20s based on the murder of four men involved in a brazen daylight bank robbery in Colorado. The case hinges on a single fingerprint found on a murdered doctor's car, and the fledgling Federal Bureau of Identification and the new boss J. Edgar Hoover play a crucial role in turning the fingerprint into solid evidence used to find, arrest and convict members of the Fleagle Gang. The Fleagle Gang robbed banks and trains in Kansas, Colorado, Oregon and California of over $1 million in the 10 years they operated. Three gang members were hung at the Colorado Penitentiary a little over two years after committing the Colorado bank robbery. The fourth was trapped and shot on a train in Branson, Mo. by postal inspectors and detectives from several states. Cartoonist Al Capp used one of the gang to create his character Evil Eye Fleagle in the Lil Abner cartoon strip and Broadway show. Cartoonist Carl Barks used the Fleagle Gang as the inspiration for The Beagle Boys who have tormented Donald Duck since 1951.

The Bohemian Flats

The Bohemian Flats
Author: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1941
Genre: Bohemian Flats (Minneapolis, Minn.)
ISBN:

The Orangeville Sun : an Index, 1860-1884

The Orangeville Sun : an Index, 1860-1884
Author: Margaret Beettam
Publisher: Acton, Ont. : M. Beettam
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Obituaries
ISBN: 9780969399179

Orangeville is in both Dufferin County and Wellington County.

The Founder of Opus Dei

The Founder of Opus Dei
Author: Andrés Vázquez de Prada
Publisher: Scepter Publishers
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781594170263

Dream, and your dreams will fall short, Saint Josemaría Escrivá told early members of Opus Dei. This third and final volume of the most extensively researched work on the founder of Opus Dei covers his years in Rome, from 1946 until his death there in 1975. It describes how Opus Dei overcame major obstacles and blossomed from a handful of members in Spain into a worldwide institution, with more than 60,000 members of 80 nationalities. Andres Vazquez de Prada, a Spanish diplomat, writer, and historian who knew Saint Josemaría personally, narrates the story, using previously unpublished letters, diaries, and other sources from the archives of the Prelature of Opus Dei.