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...Pony Shed. After that hot, sticky summer, remembering the shady trees of Pleasantville, they decided to move there. They found a $25-a-month "studio"-a single room above Manhattan Public Relations Man. Pendleton Dudley's garage-and used it as a bedroom, sitting room and office. The Wallaces cooked on a two-burner gas stove in the corner, washed in a stall shower in the garage below...
...Last year reporters for the Indianapolis Star turned over rocks in the State Welfare Department's yard and found some fascinating bugs underneath. On the relief rolls were residents of $160-a-month apartments, drivers of new cars, racetrack habitues, Florida vacationers. Members of the Indiana legislature took one look, then pushed through a bill to open assistance records to public view. They believed that the risk of publicity would scare the chiselers off relief...
...ambivalent mood. On the one hand, a vote-conscious House repassed a vetoed bill which would pay $120-a-month to disabled veterans...
When the depression caught Bill with two babies and no job, Mother Boyle hustled to the rescue. She knew just where to turn, and the Pendergast organization did not fail her. She got Bill on as a $100-a-month booking clerk at the old Fourth District police station, in the heart of Kansas City's Irish district. Two years later he was secretary to the director of police, an old Pendergast hack named Otto P. (Onie) Higgins. The ward bosses, the flatfeet and the job hunters who came to deal with Higgins called Bill Boyle "Onie...
There was one other detail. When Boyle quit his law practice in 1949, Lithofold had gone right on paying its $500-a-month retainer to Boyle's ex-partner, Max Siskind. The payments to Boyle had totalled only $1,250. The payments to Siskind, to date, had totalled $14,000 and Siskind admitted that he has done only about five minutes' work for Lithofold in 28 months. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that Bill Boyle got a total of $8,000 from Lithofold, instead of the $1,250 he swears to. Last week...