His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for prosecution.

* 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( d. 1962 )

* November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss ( d. 1962 )

* January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( b. 1897 )

Dewey, the District Attorney for Manhattan, had risen to national fame as the " Gangbuster " prosecutor who had sent numerous infamous Mafia figures to prison, most notably Lucky Luciano, the organized-crime boss of New York City.

However, New York crime boss Lucky Luciano and the " Mafia Commission " decided that Dewey's murder would provoke an all-out crackdown.

By the late 1930s Dewey's successful efforts against organized crime — and especially his conviction of Lucky Luciano — had turned him into a national celebrity.

Masseria had Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Carlo Gambino, Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello on his side.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

* Lucky Luciano ( 1974 )

Davis began work on Marked Woman ( 1937 ), as a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano.

The town was a haven for gangsters in the 1930s, including longtime resident Owney Madden and Lucky Luciano.

* Bill Graham as Charlie " Lucky " Luciano

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.

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.

Gambino was also the only mob boss of the Five Families who attended the burial of the longtime friend " Lucky " Luciano.

Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962 ), was an Italian-born, naturalized American mobster born in Sicily.

It is not clear how Luciano earned the nickname " Lucky ".

Lucky Luciano in 1948

* Lucky Luciano ( 1973 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Gian Maria Volonté

* The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano ( 2011 ) – based on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano by Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer is currently in the works.

Mehdi Bajestani as Lucky ( Waiting for Godot ) | Lucky ( from a production by Naqshineh Theatre ).

These The Parker Pen Company | Parker Duofold s from the 1920s used the Lucky Curve feed system and self-filled using a " button filler ".

Dini's Lucky Club in Yerington, Nevada | Yerington

< gallery > Image: Lucky Bay. jpg | Overlooking Lucky Bay, one of the beaches at Cape Le Grand

Image: Lucky Bay beach. jpg | Lucky Bay is a popular destination for tourists

Bana at the premiere of Lucky You ( film ) | Lucky You in May 2007

Maneki-neko with Seven lucky gods | Seven Lucky gods.

From the left: # Milo | Milo, # Biff & Chip | Biff, # Biff & Chip | Chip, # Beth | Beth, # Bob | Bob, # Pickles | Pickles, and # Lucky | Lucky.

Lantz's main character at this time was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, whose earlier cartoons had been produced by both Walt Disney and Charles Mintz.

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.

* Charles " Lucky " Luciano – Founder of the National Crime Syndicate, who used Murder, Inc. as their enforcers

* " Lucky Me, Lovable You " by Charles King

After leaving Walt Disney in the spring of 1928, Harman and Ising went to work for Charles Mintz on Universal's second-season Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons.

While at Disney, Freleng worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for producers Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz.

In 1928, Lantz was hired by Charles B. Mintz as a director on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon series for Universal Studios.

* Joe Dallesandro as Charles Lucky Luciano

Valachi then became a soldier in the family headed by Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( eventually known as the Genovese Family ), in the crew headed by Anthony " Tony Bender " Strollo.

In the early 1930s, Buchalter joined Charles " Lucky " Luciano and other Mob bosses to form the " National Crime Syndicate.

While working on the streets, Adonis became friends with future mob boss Charles " Lucky " Luciano and mobster Settimo Accardi, who were involved in illegal gambling.

Subsequently, his criminal organization included such underworld notables as Meyer Lansky, Jack " Legs " Diamond, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, and Dutch Schultz, whose combined gangs and double-dealing with their own respective bosses subverted the entire late 19th century form of political gangsterism.

In conversation with Donald Frankos he would sadly reminisce about the violent and turbulent days in the 1920s and 1930s while he was most active in robbing banks and would always tell fellow convicts that in his opinion, during the days of Al Capone and Charles Lucania, better known as Lucky Luciano, the criminal underworld was the bloodiest.

" Lucky Lindy ( Charles Lindbergh ) was welcomed on the steps of city hall by Grover Whalen.

* Gangsters Frank Costello, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel and Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( room 39c ) once lived in the Waldorf-Astoria.

* Charles Haid as Lucky Jack.

Masseria's faction included Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Alfred Mineo, Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello.

Anastasia soon became close associates with future Cosa Nostra bosses Joe Adonis, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Vito Genovese, and Frank Costello.

In September 1931, between the killing of young Vengalli and his acquittal for that death, Coll was hired by Salvatore Maranzano, who had recently crowned himself the Mafia boss of all bosses in New York City, to murder his right-hand man, Charles " Lucky " Luciano.

Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, he developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ), for which he won the first Academy Award for Directing, Street Angel ( 1928 ) and Lucky Star ( 1929 ).