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* 1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-American gangster ( d. 1983 )
** Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster ( d. 1983 )
* Meyer Lansky ( 1902 – 1983 ), Jewish gangster ; financial wizard of the National Crime Syndicate
Detective escorting Meyer Lansky.
As a representative for his associates Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, Siegel is in California to muscle control of betting parlors away from Los Angeles gangster Jack Dragna.
He acquires funding from head mobster Meyer Lansky ( Ben Kingsley ) and other New York mobsters who approve the deal for $ 1 million.
His wife, Esta, is full of marital frustration ; Daughter Millicent feels abandoned on her birthday ; Associate Meyer Lansky is conflicted between wanting to fund Ben's Casino-Hotel and worrying about Ben's obsession with wanting to kill Mussolini.
Upset about the costs, the fact that the casino is a failure, and that $ 2 million of the budget is unaccounted for, Meyer Lansky asks Bugsy to meet him in Los Angeles.
* Ben Kingsley as Meyer Lansky
Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.
On Genovese's advice, Gambino told Anastasia that they were not making enough money from the casinos at Cuba, which belonged to Meyer Lansky.
Sinatra would later testify about this in court, but announced that he didn't know any Carlo Gambino, but it got to a point where he had to explain why he was attending the Havana Conference in Cuba in 1946, showing up with $ 2, 000, 000 in a silver suitcase and a picture that showed Sinatra, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, and Carlo Gambino having a drink by a pool.
He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
It was during this time Luciano met Jewish teenager Meyer Lansky, his future business partner.
However, Meyer Lansky persuaded Luciano to keep the practice, arguing that young people needed rituals to promote obedience to the family.
Because Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel were non-Italians, neither man could hold official positions within any Cosa Nostra family.
Knowing that the Cosa Nostra controlled the waterfront, the Navy contacted Meyer Lansky about a deal with Luciano.
For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.
Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.
Lansky was born Meyer Suchowljansky in Grodno ( then in Russia, now in Belarus ), to a Jewish family who experienced pogroms.
In the 1930s, Meyer Lansky and his gang claimed to have stepped outside their usual criminal activities to break up rallies held by Nazi sympathizers.
" Meyer Lansky doesn't own property.
* Maximilian " Max " Bercovicz, the gangster played by James Woods in Sergio Leone's opus Once Upon A Time In America was inspired by Meyer Lansky.
* Meyer Lansky is portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 2005 film The Lost City.

Meyer and Gangster
Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life.
"< ref > Robert Lacey, < cite > Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life </ cite >, ( Little Brown & Co., 1991 ), pp. 200-207 .</ ref >
* Hans Meyer: Gangster # 2

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Benched at Tulsa in 1955, he told manager Dutch Meyer: `` I can't play for you.
Accordingly, at the Comedie last year, Jean Meyer played a sympathetic Arnolphe and drew criticism for turning the comedy into a tragedy.
Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, who had worked as a lead engineer on multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineering staff to work for AMD as DEC wound down their semiconductor business, and brought in a near-complete team of engineering experts.
The team at IBM involved in cipher design and analysis included Feistel, Walter Tuchman, Don Coppersmith, Alan Konheim, Carl Meyer, Mike Matyas, Roy Adler, Edna Grossman, Bill Notz, Lynn Smith, and Bryant Tuckerman.
* Bertrand Meyer: < cite > Standard Eiffel </ cite > ( revision of preceding entry ), ongoing, 1997 – present, at < cite > Bertrand Meyer's ETL3 page </ cite >, and
* Intelligent Design Debate debate between paleontologist Peter Ward and Stephen Meyer co-founder of the Discovery Institute at Talk of the Times event at Town Hall Center for Civic Life, Seattle, Washington
Others have placed the beginnings of postmodernism in the arts, with particular reference to music, at around 1930 ( Karolyi 1994, 135 ; Meyer 1994, 331 – 32 ).
Hermann von Meyer, in 1830, used the name Pterodactyli to contain Pterodactylus and other pterosaurs known at the time.
Meyer was apprehensive at first and doubted ABC would get away with making a television film on nuclear war without the censors diminishing its effect.
The Department of Defense said they would cooperate with ABC if it was made clear in the script that the Soviet Union launched their missiles first, something Meyer and Papazian were at pains not to do.
" This strikes me as ludicrous ", Meyer wrote in TV Guide at the time.
Meyer persuaded ABC to dedicate the film to the citizens of Lawrence and also to put a disclaimer at the end of the film, following the credits, letting the viewer know that The Day After downplayed the true effects of nuclear war so they would be able to have a story.
Alfred Meyer served as his deputy and represented him at the Wannsee Conference.
At the Nuremberg Trials he claimed to be ignorant of the Holocaust, despite the fact that Leibbrandt and Meyer were present at the Wannsee conference.
His opening words to the crowd of devout fans at the festival were a quote from the film he co-wrote with Russ Meyer, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: " It's my happening and it freaks me out.
After the war, Meyer worked for Deutsche Erdöl AG before studying political science at the Universities of Bonn and then Würzburg.
Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc De Meyer had separately formed a group called Under Viewer at around the same time, and the two duos joined together in 1982.
Bressanutti, Codenys and De Meyer took turns on vocals at first, until they settled on De Meyer as the lead vocalist ( early recordings with Bressanutti on vocals were subsequently released in 2004 ).
In 1995, De Meyer met Marc Heal of Cubanate at a Front Line Assembly concert, and the two of them collaborated along with Ged Denton and Jonathan Sharp, to record as Cyber-Tec Project for the new ( and short-lived ) Cyber-Tec record label.
In 1905 Oskar von Miller ( 1855 – 1934 ) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich commissioned updated versions of a geared orrery and planetarium from M Sendtner, and later worked with Franz Meyer, chief engineer at the Carl Zeiss optical works in Jena, on the largest mechanical planetarium ever constructed, capable of displaying both heliocentric and geocentric motion.
2 no 2 ( Autumn 2000 ).</ ref name = MeyerMessner >" Entering the Temple Mount-in Halacha and Jewish History ," Gedalia Meyer and Henoch Messner, PDF available at, VOl 10, Summer 2010, Hakirah .</ ref >
Associate Till Meyer was taken into custody after a March 29, 1972 shooting in Bielfield at which no one was wounded.
Some of these original hangers can be seen at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Meyer May House in Grand Rapids.

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