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Don
Vito
Corleone
helped
them
all
.
Not
only
that
,
he
helped
them
with
goodwill
,
with
encouraging
words
to
take
the
bitter
sting
out
of
the
charity
he
gave
them
.
It
was
only
natural
then
that
when
these
Italians
were
puzzled
and
confused
on
who
to
vote
for
to
represent
them
in
the
state
legislature
,
in
the
city
offices
,
in
the
Congress
,
they
should
ask
the
advice
of
their
friend
Don
Corleone
,
their
Godfather
.
And
so
he
became
a
political
power
to
be
consulted
by
practical
party
chiefs
.
He
consolidated
this
power
with
a
far-seeing
statesmanlike
intelligence
;
by
helping
brilliant
boys
from
poor
Italian
families
through
college
,
boys
who
would
later
become
lawyers
,
assistant
district
attorneys
,
and
even
judges
.
He
planned
for
the
future
of
his
empire
with
all
the
foresight
of
a
great
national
leader
.
The
repeal
of
Prohibition
dealt
this
empire
a
crippling
blow
but
again
he
had
taken
his
precautions
.
In
1933
he
sent
emissaries
to
the
man
who
controlled
all
the
gambling
activities
of
Manhattan
,
the
crap
games
on
the
docks
,
the
shylocking
that
went
with
it
as
hot
dogs
go
with
baseball
games
,
the
bookmaking
on
sports
and
horses
,
the
illicit
gambling
houses
that
ran
poker
games
,
the
policy
or
numbers
racket
of
Harlem
.
This
man
's
name
was
Salvatore
Maranzano
and
he
was
one
of
the
acknowledged
pezzonovante
,
.
90
calibers
,
or
big
shots
of
the
New
York
underworld
.
The
Corleone
emissaries
proposed
to
Maranzano
an
equal
partnership
beneficial
to
both
parties
.
Vito
Corleone
with
his
organization
,
his
police
and
political
contacts
,
could
give
the
Maranzano
operations
a
stout
umbrella
and
the
new
strength
to
expand
into
Brooklyn
and
the
Bronx
.
But
Maranzano
was
a
short-sighted
man
and
spurned
the
Corleone
offer
with
contempt
.
The
great
Al
Capone
was
Maranzano
's
friend
and
he
had
his
own
organization
,
his
own
men
,
plus
a
huge
war
chest
.
He
would
not
brook
this
upstart
whose
reputation
was
more
that
of
a
Parliamentary
debater
than
a
true
Mafioso
.
Maranzano
's
refusal
touched
off
the
great
war
of
1933
which
was
to
change
the
whole
structure
of
the
underworld
in
New
York
City
.
At
first
glance
it
seemed
an
uneven
match
.
Salvatore
Maranzano
had
a
powerful
organization
with
strong
enforcers
.
He
had
a
friendship
with
Capone
in
Chicago
and
could
call
on
help
in
that
quarter
.
He
also
had
a
good
relationship
with
the
Tattaglia
Family
,
which
controlled
prostitution
in
the
city
and
what
there
was
of
the
thin
drug
traffic
at
that
time
.
He
also
had
political
contacts
with
powerful
business
leaders
who
used
his
enforcers
to
terrorize
the
Jewish
unionists
in
the
garment
center
and
the
Italian
anarchist
syndicates
in
the
building
trades
.
Against
this
,
Don
Corleone
could
throw
two
small
but
superbly
organized
regimes
led
by
Clemenza
and
Tessio
.
His
political
and
police
contacts
were
negated
by
the
business
leaders
who
would
support
Maranzano
.
But
in
his
favor
was
the
enemy
's
lack
of
intelligence
about
his
organization
.
The
underworld
did
not
know
the
true
strength
of
his
soldiers
and
even
were
deceived
that
Tessio
in
Brooklyn
was
a
separate
and
independent
operation
.
And
yet
despite
all
this
,
it
was
an
unequal
battle
until
Vito
Corleone
evened
out
the
odds
with
one
master
stroke
.
Maranzano
sent
a
call
to
Capone
for
his
two
best
gunmen
to
come
to
New
York
to
eliminate
the
upstart
.
The
Corleone
Family
had
friends
and
intelligence
in
Chicago
who
relayed
the
news
that
the
two
gunmen
were
arriving
by
train
.
Vito
Corleone
dispatched
Luca
Brasi
to
take
care
of
them
with
instructions
that
would
liberate
the
strange
man
's
most
savage
instincts
.
Brasi
and
his
people
,
four
of
them
,
received
the
Chicago
hoods
at
the
railroad
station
.
One
of
Brasi
's
men
procured
and
drove
a
taxicab
for
the
purpose
and
the
station
porter
carrying
the
bags
led
the
Capone
men
to
this
cab
.
When
they
got
in
,
Brasi
and
another
of
his
men
crowded
in
after
them
,
guns
ready
,
and
made
the
two
Chicago
boys
lie
on
the
floor
.
The
cab
drove
to
a
warehouse
near
the
docks
that
Brasi
had
prepared
for
them
.
