Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a hawk nose, hard eyes and a trap-door mouth stood in the auditorium of a Jersey City high school and harangued a crowd. He had given them the great Jersey City Medical Center, the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, he declaimed, his ancient dewlaps shaking above a high, old-fashioned collar. "Will we turn over these buildings," he demanded, "and desert motherhood?" The 5,000 yelled: "No." On & on the old man went, pleading, threatening, appealing for consideration of favors graciously done by a corrupt political machine...
Left to Mayor Kenny was a city fairly free of crime and vice (Hague always boasted of his kingdom's purity), and a city with a first-class medical center and maternity hospital. Left to Mayor Kenny also was a city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor...
...International Ladies' Garment Workers (405,000 members). With a wife and four kids to look after, Willie gave up a $180-a-week pressing job last fall to work for $80 as a special organizer: there were still some non-union no-good-nicks in the garment center...
Shoulder to Shoulder. One hundred cops were put on the case, padding patiently from one building to the next in the garment center, questioning 400 people. The great I.L.G.W.U. rose in its wrath. It offered $25,000 for the conviction of Willie's murderers, ordered 65,000 dressmakers to quit work for four hours to attend his funeral...
Black-bordered and six-feet high, Willie's photograph hung above the stage in the vast Manhattan Center, where Willie lay in state. Beneath it was the sentence: "We mourn our loss." Four thousand of his union brothers & sisters crowded into the high-vaulted auditorium for the service. Outside 20,000 more heard the impassioned voice of Union President David Dubinsky exhort the mourners: "Little did we think that in 1949 we would have to sacrifice a man. What a mistake that employer made! This union will not permit it, no matter what the police department or the district...