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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy Hines, political activity was life, and vice versa. During his gaudy years as a Tammany boss the line formed each morning outside his bedroom door. Supplicants began filing past his bed as soon as he awakened. He listened, smiling genially, to them all. They were the basis of the controlled vote, and the vote meant many things to Jimmy-prestige, front-row seats, wads of bills to bet at the races, comfortable bank accounts in his wife's name. He controlled judges and cops. His friends ranged from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, the "numbers...
...late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
Many reports of hosts of women snipers boiled down to two concrete cases. One was a 29-year-old Pole called Myra, who was reported to have lured soldiers into smiling range of her revolver. Another was identified as Audette Chraud, a Frenchwoman who potted Allied troops from her bedroom window. Villagers explained that she had been their leading collaborationist and a frequent entertainer of German officers. Both were taken to England, the Frenchwoman wounded...
Faith in a Hall Bedroom. The industrial revolution was booming. Hours were long, wages low. Dry-goods clerks sometimes worked 14 to 17 hours a day. For recreation in their brief free time they were offered only gambling, drunkenness, lechery...
Twenty-two-year-old George Williams felt the call to do something about it. On June 6, 1844 he summoned into his cheap London bedroom eleven dry-goods clerks. With these apostles, he set about organizing a society for "the improvement of the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery and other trades, by the introduction of religious services among them." Thus theY.M.C.A. was born...