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Abraham Beckerman
Abraham Beckerman (September 27, 1890 – July 31, 1964) was an English-born American labor leader, politician and convicted criminal. In 1937, he was found guilty of racketeering for using his position as general manager of the Fur Dressers Factor Corporation to aid mobsters Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter in a conspiracy to control the $75 million fur-dressing industry. He was previously a Socialist Party of America, Socialist Party politician, representing Manhattan, Manhattan's 6th district on the New York City Board of Aldermen from 1918 to 1921. After he left office, he became general manager of the New York (state), New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. During his tenure, Beckerman fought to rid the unions of Communist influence with what former colleague Baruch Charney Vladeck dubbed "Beckerman's knuckles." References External links * Our Campaigns - Beckerman, Abraham I.FBI - Fur Dressers Case {{DEFAULTSORT:B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Board Of Aldermen
The New York City Board of Aldermen was a body that was the upper house of New York City's Common Council from 1824 to 1875, the lower house of its Municipal Assembly upon consolidation in 1898 until the charter was amended in 1901 to abolish the Municipal Assembly and its upper house, and its unicameral legislature from 1875 to 1897 and 1902 to 1937. The corresponding lower house was known as the Board of Assistants or the Board of Assistant Aldermen from 1824 to 1875, while the upper house was known as the Council from 1898 to 1901. In 1938 a new charter came into effect that replaced the Board of Aldermen with the New York City Council. Upper house (1824–1875) Municipal legislators had been known as "aldermen" since at least April 1686, and had historically sat in the "Common Council" alongside so-called "assistant aldermen". In 1824 an Act of the New York State Legislature made the Common Council bicameral by dividing it into a Board of Aldermen and a Board of Assista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |