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...Commissioner of Markets said that racketeering in the poultry market was reputedly "protected" by Hines, but this could not be proved. Neither could the District Attorney prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...years Hines romped with children of his district at picnics of his Monongahela Club. He watched such local boys make good as Frank Costello, "King of the slot machines" and Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...
When the new building of the U. S. Department of Labor was opened in Washington in 1935, an exhibition of 15 paintings dignified it. They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography...
...system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George M. Koren to do a group for her garden. Sculptor Koren produced three earth-spurning, wind-blown nudes symbolizing Pittsburgh's three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio. To his delight Three Rivers won the $2,000 Prix de Rome in sculpture last spring...
...office. Nor has he ever held a job as exalted as Tammany Mayor James J. Walker, who resigned under fire from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. But, running his district like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils, was shrewd enough to make with Franklin Roosevelt an early peace which assured his district a healthy share of New Deal patronage in years that have been lean for most Tammany bigwigs...