Word: bootblack
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...John Maragon, the wily Washington five-percenter, an ex-Kansas City bootblack who traded on gall and his friendship with Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan, was indicted for perjury by a Washington grand jury on charges of lying to a Senate subcommittee last July when he said he had never done business with the government for commissions...
...curious coincidence, the Verley Co. was the same firm which employed John Maragon, sometime Kansas City bootblack and long one of Vaughan's sharp-eyed friends, who reportedly once tried to smuggle some precious perfume oil into the country as "champagne for Mrs. Truman" (TIME...
Economics Lesson. In Manhattan, when David Feldman was asked by the court how he had managed to save $6,410 in seven years while working as a bootblack, he explained: "I was on relief...
...bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited him to his office to shine his shoes. Genaro came out with shining eyes-he was the President's bootblack...
Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...