Word: moynihan
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...Sometimes he’d go in, and I’d show up a few minutes later,” the elder Moynihan brother recalls. “I’d say, ‘Hey this is my beat! Get the hell out of here!’ Sometimes I’d knock his papers to the floor and walk out. And a few more people would feel sorry and buy newspapers from my brother...
...father left the family when Moynihan was about 10 years old. And the financial instability of his family prompted him to spend much of his time trying to earn money. He worked on the docks, as a stockboy at a department store and on a suburban farm, in addition to a number of other odd jobs...
Despite his own relatively modest background, Moynihan says the United States during the Depression era was still a “land of large opportunity...
...Moynihan excelled academically at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem and matriculated at New York’s City College after graduation...
After his active-duty years, Moynihan cultivated his interest in politics, which had begun with a political science class in high school, by working on the staff of New York Governor Averell Harriman in the late 1950s...