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...phone to Larry Casanova, a Puerto Rican lawyer in my club whom I recently placed in Mayor Beame's office as a special assistant. Mr. Casanova heard the problem and reacted quickly. He called the landlord and told him he would send a building inspector to Mrs. Negron's apartment if the hot water was not turned on within the day. Two hours after Mr. Casanova's phone call, Mrs. Negron came to the parish to report that she now had hot water...
...Negron case is typical of what I can do as a "power politician." By supporting Beame in the primary and general election, I am able to get quick results for the people of the South Bronx on housing and other matters. If doing that is "criminal," I must plead guilty. But I don't think the people in the South Bronx believe that what I do is wrong. Through "the dean of the political bosses Patrick J. Cunningham," I have gotten jobs for over 20 poor Puerto Ricans. If this makes Patrick J. Cunningham evil, don't tell...
...less about New York. It is aimed at New York's non-Puerto Rican Latin Americans-Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians-who are currently streaming into the city, while the Puerto Rican migration has slowed to a bare trickle. El Tiempo also makes a point of hiring celebrities. Enrique Negron, the Bronx grocer who saved a policeman from a howling...