Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt that Tammany looks upon him as its candidate. All the ward-heeling machinery which has been growing rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking his chops in anticipation of an early feast after a long famine...
...some other people to make the book as effective as possible." Armenian Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), glossy darling of the '20s (The Green Hat), reached Manhattan by freighter from Britain, en route to Hollywood. Latest report on the other Armenian, William Saroyan: he plans to start a saloon modeled on his play, The Time of Your Life, on Manhattan's fly-blown Third Avenue...
...Closed was the powerful bail-bond firm of McDonough Bros., which had flourished for 50 years in San Francisco. The building-in the shadow of the Hall of Justice (police courts)-still has the cupid-festooned ceilings, mahogany woodwork and silver spittoons of the days when it was a saloon. San Franciscans believe it was the first bail-bond firm in the U.S. It was without a doubt the most notorious business house in San Francisco...
McDonough Bros, was founded as a saloon by Patrick McDonough, a retired police sergeant. His two sons, Pete and Thomas, tended bar. The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar. When they learned that the lawyers were charging their clients for these bonds, they began charging too. After old man Mc Donough died, Pete ripped out the bar, dealt solely in bail bonds, soon became a millionaire...
...back to Yonkers, gave a lecture at the high school (the company is very proud of him), and rejoined old friends of the mill days at the neat boardinghouse he used to live in at 8 Maple Street. William R. Booth had found him working in a Sixth Avenue saloon, and got him the mill job in the first place. Billy Booth has every word his friend has ever written, post cards and letters as well. Like "Macey," he always was a thoughtful, reading man. He still is, but he never left the mill. He is mechanical supply manager...