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When he was 13 his father died. Al quit St. James Parochial School to go to work. He could hardly read the printed word. But by the time he was 19 he was earning high wages-$12 a week-at the Fulton Fish Market. Tom Foley, a Tammany district leader...
To Jimmy Hines, political activity was life, and vice versa. During his gaudy years as a Tammany boss the line formed each morning outside his bedroom door. Supplicants began filing past his bed as soon as he awakened. He listened, smiling genially, to them all. They were the basis of...
The 62-year-old Boss of Manhattan became Convict No. 78,719, was given a job as a gardener in the prison greenhouse. Fellow prisoners treated him with respect. Jimmy Hines, whose grandfather had been a Tammany captain under Boss Tweed, and whose father had been a Tammany captain under...
* Said Postmaster General Frank Walker admir.ingly, after touring the Teamsters' 30-man "public relations division" in Los Angeles: "I haven't seen anything like this since Tammany Hall."
The Deals. A loyal Tammanyite and oldtime pillar of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Joe Day was always a tough trader. When he engineered the sale of Tammany's famed 14th Street headquarters, one cynic penned a sarcastic parody of When Day Is Done, ending: