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Re: 2 Observations......
[Re: craigs48]
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08/10/22 07:32 PM
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As far as I've seen, Don is more like calling someone uncle or grandfather,so Don Vito would be correct.
Also,I don't know of any Families that pay their members anything like a weekly or monthly salary. In fact,more often than not,it's the other way around.
Some Capos may require their men to regularly kick up a certain minimum amount ,plus , of course,their cut of any other earnings,
There may be some exceptions,but they would be few and far between.
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Re: 2 Observations......
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08/14/22 02:13 AM
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I agree with Lou, though I read somewhere on this board or the OC board that Don Firstname is a Sicilian tradition, Don Lastname is more American. It seems from what I see on TV or read that currently, the troops call or refer to their bosses by first name or nickname.
No, nobody gets a salary in a Mafia family. As Lou said, the troops earn and they kick upstairs. In the GF novel, when Vito made Tom consigliere, Puzo wrote that Tom would become "a very rich man." Since he had no troops or action on his own, I inferred that the Capos and perhaps others would kick up to him, or that Vito would allocate some of his kicked-upstairs funds to Tom, which you might, by a stretch, call a salary. Puzo also wrote that, after doing a piece of work for Michael, Neri's reward was "a particularly rich bookie joint on the East Side."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: 2 Observations......
[Re: olivant]
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Sure, Oli--a direct replay of that famous garrotting, including the long-standing beef that led to it, except that the Rosato brothers were the Gallos as aggressors, and Pentangeli was Profaci this time as the victim. No New Yorker of a certain age will ever forget the photo on p.1 of the Daily News showing Larry Gallo being led away from the Sahara Lounge in Brooklyn with a big red line on his neck.
I'm sure you remember from the novel that Puzo conflated Vito's rise as a replay of the Castellemmarese War of 1930-31, except that Vito's foe was "Maranzalla," and it included Capoe sending help to '"Maranzalla." In real life, Joe Masseria, who was allied with Capone, fought Salvatore Maranzano, who won by having Masseria assassinated whille lunching with supposedly trusted associates--i.e., "died with a mouthful of bread."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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