Word: roe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tailor Jones switched from pantsmaking to the policy racket and made Ted Roe his first "runner," i.e., salesman of lottery chances. Protected by the Kelly-Nash machine, Jones was making $2,000 a day by 1930, $10,000 a day by 1938. Ted Roe got fat cuts of the fat profits...
...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...
...small policy operators capitulated to the syndicate. Negro Operator Jones was kidnaped in 1946, paid $100,000 in ransom and hurriedly left for Mexico. But Ted Roe, his heir apparent, refused to give in. The Jones-Roe wheels netted $1,120,000 that year...
...last year, Roe was the last lone operator; four gangsters tried to kidnap him, too. But his luck held. Roe, who habitually packed a pistol, got away, leaving a hoodlum named Leonard ("Fat Lennie") Caifano dead. Roe enjoyed life-he drove a Cadillac, wore $50 neckties, and lived in a flamboyant apartment which boasted a revolving television set and pastel-tinted telephones to match the color scheme of each room...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: Brooklyn Pitchers: Roe, Brooklyn(7-0) Erskine, Brooklyn (10-2) Batter: Musial, St. Louis (.323) Runs Batted In: Sauer, Chicago (76) Home Runs: Sauer, Chicago...