Word: 111th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the election of crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines's big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire with smiling aplomb and efficient service. Smarting under Al Smith's attempt to run Tammany, Hines backed Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932, won a fat reward that left Tammany with tongue drooping; F.D.R. handed him the job of dispensing all federal patronage in Manhattan...
...unpredictable Yale hockey team will battle the League-leading Crimson sextet in the 111th meeting of the two rivals at the Boston Arena tonight...
Education: High school at Highland Park, Ill.; at West Point graduated 111th in a class...