Portland on the Take: Mid-Century Crime Bosses, Civic Corruption & Forgotten Murders by Jd Chandler, Jb Fisher

Portland on the Take: Mid-Century Crime Bosses, Civic Corruption & Forgotten Murders

Jd Chandler, Jb Fisher

162 pages missing pub info (editions)

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In an era when Portland's shipyards thrived, so, too, did corruption. The Red Scare that followed the 1934 Waterfront Strike allowed gangsters to gain control of some of the city's unions. Working in cahoots with high-ranking city officials, crimi...

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