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...honest men in government were being used by politicians for their own ends and at the workers' expense." He left Wall Street during the Depression to become a sanitation worker. After one day in front of a Brooklyn incinerator, he was ready to go back. But a Wall Street croney told him "not to turn yellow," to go back and give the job a chance. "It was the best advice I ever got," DeLury now says...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Steering a Tight Ship in a Sinking City | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

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