"I want it clearly understood: no thugs, racketeers or punks are going to be allowed to intimidate you as long as I am mayor of the City of New York.”

Find out what led the Mayor of NYC to proclaim this to a group of produce merchants at the Bronx Market in 1935 in this week's episode.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe#1944%E2%80%931948:_Modeling_and_first_film_roles

https://medium.californiasun.co/when-marilyn-monroe-reigned-as-californias-artichoke-queen-3017ce58c1a5

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-mafia-histories

http://www.foodpassages.com/jottings-by-joel/jottings/the-artichoke-wars/

http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/Artichoke/