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Nobody who reads Bringing Up Father can be sure whether Jiggs is a first name or a last (McManus doesn't know either), or how Jiggs made his money (McManus thinks he must have been an Irish contractor, since so many of his friends are hod carriers and steel workers). But of some things they may be sure, like their parents before them: Jiggs can't stand his wife's friends, lives in daily fear of her well-aimed rolling pin and crockery, but will never hit back. And there will never be a continued story...
Schoolman. In Philadelphia, James C. Mason, who helped build Central High School as a hod carrier in 1894, finally enrolled as a student...
...third major candidate was someone that any visitor could understand: a triple-dyed, up-from-the-ranks Democrat, and no question about it. He was stocky, scrappy William O'Dwyer, ex-Brooklyn District Attorney, ex-Brigadier General, who once studied for the priesthood, became a bartender, hod carrier, cop and magistrate...
...bosses of all parties, sniffing the winds of power, put on brass-knuckle fights to pick their candidates. Democrats, with a handsome candidate handed them on a platter, roiled and boiled for weeks before they finally chose him: Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer, onetime cop, hod carrier, onetime student for the priesthood, an ex-brigadier general, and the man who broke up Brooklyn's Murder...
...employer as well as a labor leader: men of Fay's union worked for Fay's construction company. With another A.F. of L. chieftain, balding, scarred James Bove, Vice President of the Hod Carriers' union, Fay held a virtual monopoly on the East's construction workers. He had power, money, attorneys, and the friend ship of politicians like New Jersey's Boss Frank Hague...