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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Jimmy was 17, Hines Sr. sickened never to recover. Jimmy ran the smithy, by 21 was acting for his father as election district captain. Twice he was arrested for street fighting, once for assaulting a girl whom he took to a hotel and afterwards refused to marry-wild oats for a young man on the upper west side. Tammany took care of its own; he wasn't sent to jail...
That year, aged 42, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army's motor transport and went abroad to serve nearly a year in France. In 1920 he returned to politics, beat out Abraham Kaplan for Tammany leadership of his district. The next year he braved Boss Murphy's wrath to run against the organization's candidate for Borough President. He lost narrowly but thereafter was a power to be reckoned with...
...gambling losses with her checks, but he collected and kept his winnings in cash. The Hines family formed two office equipment and furniture companies to sell goods to the city for new buildings in 1935-37. One made $69,000 for the family, the other about $42,000. The District Attorney said that in 1928 Hines got $7,500 from a man & woman sentenced to prison in a "numbers" racket case. Their sentences were reduced. He acted as intermediary with the Tenement House Commission for several Bronx property owners. They gave...
...Commissioner of Markets said that racketeering in the poultry market was reputedly "protected" by Hines, but this could not be proved. Neither could the District Attorney prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...years Hines romped with children of his district at picnics of his Monongahela Club. He watched such local boys make good as Frank Costello, "King of the slot machines" and Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...