Penna, Rosa, 91

Penzato, Sadie, 73

Peronace, Antony, 25

Petruzzi, Daniel, 79

phony war, 67

Piccolo, Josephine, 156

Pinza, Ezio, 105

Pisciotta, Alex, 15, 25, 84

Poletti, Charles, 138, 217, 222–226, 229, 231, 244

Polizzi, Joseph, 155

Pond, George, 27

Pope Pius XII, 231

Pope, Generoso, 45–46, 49–50, 61, 64, 66, 139–140, 142–143, 208, 210–212, 215, 220, 225, 232, 248, 250

Porcaro, Dom, 240

Powell, Adam C., xi, 53, 56

Pozzetta, George, xiii, xiv

Prianti, 284–285

Prohibition, 3

Quaranta, 82

radio days, 33, 197

Rao, Paul, 217

Red Scare, 1

Ridgewood/Bushwick, 12, 15

Rizzo, 18, 80, 261

Rizzo, Saverio, 28

Roberts, Kenneth, 39

Rofrano, Michael, 204

Romano, 155, 243

Romeo, 238, 243

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 28, 39–40, 46, 49–51, 61–67, 70, 85, 102, 116, 120, 123, 141–144, 155, 163, 168, 200, 212, 215, 217–218, 220, 224, 230, 231, 234, 245–250, 268–269, 285

Rossi, Angelo, 59, 193

Rosso, 130

Rovito Coat Company, 75

Sabelli, Cesare, 26–27

Sacco-Vanzetti, 2

Salvemini, Gaetano, 11, 48, 214–215

Sanfilippo, 81

Sangemino, Jim, 242

Saraniero, Giaconda R., 72

Savoldi, Joe , 262

Scalamandre, 78

Scammacca, Nat, 16, 71

Scariano, Anthony, 163

Scerra, 83

Scherini, Rose, 102

Schiavelli, Vincent, 20

Scottoline, Lisa, 100

Sechi, Monsignor Claudio, 131

Selassie, Haile, 49, 54, 56

Silvestri, Monsignor Ottavio, 10–11, 28, 130

Sinatra, Frank, 93–94, 155, 157, 192, 197–203, 248

Sons of Italy, 45, 141, 191, 219, 246, 249, 294

Spanish Civil War, 57

SPARS, 71

Spinola, Eleanor V., 72

St. Joseph’s Table, 21

St. Joseph’s Church, 11, 70, 84, 130

St. Rocco, 148

stab in the back, 61–62, 245

Stallone, 18

Sturzo, Luigi, 213

Sullivan, 82

Sutera, Frank, 80

Tarallo, Frank, 162, 165–168, 237

Taylor, Myron C., 231

Tonelli, Bill, xiii

Toscani, Frank, 159–160, 222

Toscanini, Arturo, 137, 178, 203