Polish-American organized crime and Hymie Weiss (Wojciechowski) both having a Polish heritage. Fred Goetz was involved in carrying out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In New Jersey, the organization led by Mickey Cusick, was the prominent boss of bootlegging in Southern Jersey. The infamous gangster Meyer Lansky, one of the leaders of the National Crime Syndicate and associate of Lucky Luciano, was actually a Polish Jew. Joseph Filkowski led a mostly Polish bootlegging ring in Cleveland, Ohio, along with gangster Joseph Stazek. In Pittsburgh, Paul Jarwarski was also a prominent figure, carrying out the first armored car robbery. In Buffalo, New York John
Ida Lansky a method for creating unique imagery rather than a method of representation. She was also an expert in the chemistry of photography, filling up notebooks with detailed records of her experiments. Lansky experimented with different light exposures, chemicals and temperatures, seeing how these variables affected the final prints. Her "experiments" were also considered artistic: with galleries in Dallas, Texas and San Francisco inviting her to show her work. In 1960, she exhibited at The Black Tulip Galleries in Dallas, which would be her last show. Lansky chose to pursue a career in library science instead of art. She attended Texas