Word: pushcarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Lower East Side, John Dioguardi used to extort his spending money by tipping over pushcarts until harried street peddlers paid him to lay off. Payoffs got bigger later on, but essentially Johnny Dio remained a pushcart upsetter. Many a New York City 'trucking firm decided that it would be cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected...
...Push for Pushcart. Whitney's grandfathers were Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of State John Hay, and William Collins Whitney, a street-railway tycoon and multimillionaire. Thanks principally to Grandfather Whitney, Jock Whitney is endowed with a fortune of some $60 million (which will tide him through the London embassy's estimated excess expenditure of $50,000 a year above the ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York...
...penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate Ida Littman Javits Street). The Javits family lived rent-free because Immigrant Morris Javits worked as janitor for three verminous tenements. In these tenements were enough voters to whet Tammany's appetite. An arrangement was made...
...Workers staged mass anti-government demonstrations in the streets of Hankow. Sixteen pushcart coolies accused of "inciting them to disturb general peace and security" were sentenced to death at a public trial (Yangtze Daily, March...
...youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...