Word: scat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick, No Scat. In Broken Arrow, Okla. (pop. 2,074), another hero home from the wars had a welcome colored by Indian atmosphere, and flavored with country feasting. He was Lieut. Ernest Childers (himself three parts Indian and one part Irish), who, like Kelly, had earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy. For him, too, there were parades, speeches, and a lunch in the basement of the Methodist Church. But Childers' homecoming was most memorable for a reminiscent evaluation of his fighting qualities given by his 55-year-old half brother, Walter Childers. Said Brother Walter: "He would...
Boss of the Fifth Ward. Mike Scat is one of the more fragrant characters in U.S. municipal politics. Son of an Italian junk dealer, he went to high school and Georgetown University. Before he finished college, Frank Hague called him home to boss the Fifth Ward, where most of Jersey City's 70,000 Italians live...
...reward, Mike Scat got the garbage contract-a circumstance which provided money for him, jobs for his constituents. Mike knew how to take care of his people. Among other things he organized the Dante Alighieri Society, which provided social evenings and entertainment. For a few years before Pearl Harbor, Mike Scat's favorite entertainment was a show in which one of the actors did a takeoff of Haile Selassie...
Since Mike Scat could always be sure of the garbage contract (this year worth $522,000), he never bothered to modernize his equipment. He still uses horse-drawn wagons, a slow method which, even in normal times, permitted him to make no more than two collections a week. It also called for more manpower, therefore more jobs for his loyal Fifth Warders. But last month the manpower shortage finally caught up with Mike Scat...
Mike made a typical Hague compromise: he would collect the garbage in the Journal Square district (where Frank Hague lives) and in the West Side park section (where most other politicians live). The rest of Jersey City's garbage could lie rotting. Complained Mike Scat: "The work is hard and unattractive...