Word: wards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew, of course, that so-and-so was the "bagman," a collector of graft and bribes for Mayor Frank Hague, whose machine Kenny served and then ousted. That somebody's indolent cousin had been put "on the pad" by some ward leader's exertions. That every year on "Rice Pudding Day" those lucky enough to receive city patronage or employment kicked back a certain percentage of their gains. That "the little guy" himself distributed work tickets early in the morning to men going to the docks for the shape-up. That, as a matter of course...
...only spontaneous one I ever saw in Jersey City. But though fear diminished, the System, with all its involuted roots, survived and flourished. How could it be otherwise? I will believe it has ended only when the great, greasy, Victorian city hall turns into an opera house and ward leaders become crusaders for ecology. As my grandmother used to say (she, like Mr. Kenny, had her own little adage): "We live in hope and we die in despair...
...stay stretched out. It is now an average 4½ months. Many fatherless families live in places like the Hamilton Hotel, where they huddle in one or two filth-encrusted rooms, some of the children dull-eyed and incoherent from illness, the adults too confused and helpless to ward off the misery or the rats...
...concept of an angel," wrote one recent student of the creatures, Theodora Ward, in Men and Angels, "is peculiar to the monotheistic religions, in which the immensity of the power concentrated in one universal god must somehow be channeled to reach the needs of man, as a great river may be diverted into a system of ducts to irrigate fields." But how to embody this concept? The first angels in Christian art look like ordinary men, whether painted on catacomb walls or preserved in mosaic on the 5th century walls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. What the artist stresses...
Practical Gifts. Even more ominous than total sales are the signs that a new parsimony in gift giving has infected the public. "The average sale is going to be down this year," says Robert Daly, Chicago district manager of Montgomery Ward. "Christmas business is spotty," adds Ralph Lazarus, chairman of Federated Department Stores. "Shoppers are buying pure necessities but not luxury items." complains Richard Lusk, head of the Denver Retail Merchants Association...