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...shunted from apartment to apartment, said Prosecutor Dewey, "in the manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bawdy Business | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Earnings of a syndicate prostitute averaged $300 per week. Of this she paid 50% to her current madam, 10% of the remainder to her booker, $25 to $35 for a week's board, $5 for medical examination and care, $10 to the syndicate for bonding. That left $75 to $100 per week for herself. When a house was raided and a girl arrested, the madam would telephone a man named "Binge," who in turn notified one of the syndicate's bondsmen. The madam had to put up half the girl's bail, usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bawdy Business | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Prostitutes and Madams arrested in a series of raids last February were the State's chief witnesses. First on the stand was Renee Gallo, 25, a pert, dark Italian who said she was born in New York, moved to Philadelphia at 8, first surrendered to a man at 18, took to the streets when he deserted her five years later. After six months a madam named Mollie introduced her to a booker named Pete. "Mollie says, 'This is the new girl, Renee.' And I says, 'Hello.' And Pete says, 'Wanna work steady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bawdy Business | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/14/1936 | See Source »

...Congressmen. As he did so, into the chamber filed Representatives Ulysses S. (for Samuel) Guyer of Kansas, John J. O'Connor of New York and Mary T. Norton of New Jersey. Behind them filed Mrs. Thomas David Schall, widow of the late Senator from Minnesota, in full mourning; Madam Senator Long, widow of the late Senator Huey Pierce Long; a dozen other relatives of the seven Congressmen who had died in the last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Memoriam | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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