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...loaded the public payrolls with 65 of his relatives, made his brother Edward chief of police, exacted 3% salary kickbacks and complete humility from city employees. McFeely's trucks collected Hoboken's garbage (but so carelessly that goats followed them in the streets). His city became a hangout for prohibition-era gangsters. In time, he had a fortune...
...Winston Grill served cocktails from a bar hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
...Cafe Tupinamba, favorite hangout of Mexico City's journalists, politicians, actors, bookies, bullfighters, etc., completed Ralph's education. There he picked up odd jobs reporting for local newspapers, editing the leaflet given tourists at the bullring. There his "I just heard what you said and I want to set you straight on that" has been the start of many a warm (and newsworthy) friendship, many a warmer argument...
...composing room of the strikebound Philadelphia Record stalked a squad of grim-faced A.F.L. printers. They marched across the street to Rosen's saloon, a hangout for Record workers. In the bar, they walked up to a group of strikers, tossed them the proofs of a statement that was running on Page One. Said one bitter printer: "Well, you guys have finally managed to close the paper...
Broke and dispirited, Harry Truman turned to politics. With the backing of American Legionnaires, who had made his haberdashery their hangout, he won the nod of Boss Pendergast for county judge. Faithful, efficient, unimaginative, never one to make trouble, he stayed in this administrative post for ten years...