Word: heeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sundry vices has been the biggest dope trade in any U. S. city. U. S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Jacob Anslinger suddenly appeared in Kansas City, where his men have been quietly tracking dope merchants for nearly two years, and last week they arrested a Pendergast policeman, a Pendergast ward heeler, five lesser characters...
...Want a HEALER or a HEELER...
...those three?" Predecessor Dodge, a sandy-haired, bespectacled Democratic wheelhorse whose official inaction was the direct cause of Tom Dewey's appointment as rackets investigator, issued a prompt, pompous denial of the charges. Equally prompt was Hulon Capshaw, an amiable, Tennessee-born Social Registerite who was a Hines heeler while still at Columbia Law School 25 years ago. Magistrate Capshaw was conveniently prepared with a statistical breakdown of his disposition of cases involving the numbers racket...
...ordinary heeler wants in return for his services is a small official job and accompanying "perquisites." If his party stays out of power too long, he will grow discouraged, seek other livelihood. That is what has been happening to the Republican machine since 1932. But the heeler may be equally bereft if his party wins too often and too easily. For then the party generals and captains and lieutenants come to believe that they themselves achieved the victories, forget the rear-rank privates who did the actual fighting...
First Negro constable of St. Louis was Charles H. Turpin, a taffy-colored Republican ward heeler. Son of an amiable colored saloonkeeper named Tom ("Millions") Turpin, he too opened barrooms in St. Louis' black belt with Brother Tom Jr. Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano...