Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City's few good residential sections, in his $125,000 Deal (N.J.) summer home, or in his $100,000 winter home on Biscayne Bay. Doubtless old Frank Hague also had some pleasant memories...
...talked to another mother whose 18-month-old boy had the same eye disease. "I listened as she told me that there just wasn't any hope for her boy. 'The doctors are going to operate on him but I know it won't do any good,' she told me. There's nothing anyone can do for him.' Then she said the words that shocked me terribly and at the same time made me feel sorry for her. 'Sometimes,' she told me, 'I wish I could do away with my baby...
...biggest in New York, the 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...
...softball game between two inmate teams at Massachusetts' Plymouth county jail, the ball was belted over the wall. Unwilling to hold up the game, good-natured Guard Robert Woodward opened the gate so that a trusty could retrieve it, whereupon four prisoners knocked him down and escaped...
...asked a scared, blond youth. "Essen, eh? Just came here to visit your parents. Where do they live? American sector, eh? How did you get here?" The youth hesitated. "Illegally, eh?" chuckled Klein. "But you are very glad that you can now go back in comfort on such a good train, aren't you? That's fine. And now a few words from Herr Kreikmeyer, president of the railways...