Word: tru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began transferring his interest and rum profits to safer fields. In 1928 he formed a lasting partnership with Dandy Phil Kastel, a dapper little enterpriser who had whetted 'his wits as manager of a Montreal restaurant and operator of a Manhattan bucket shop. Costello and Kastel formed the Tru-Mint Novelty Corp. and gave the enthusiastic New York public a chance to play slot machines. He told Kastel: "If a guy named Hershey could make all that dough on a 5? candy bar, maybe there's an angle here...
Between 1928 and 1934 the Tru-Mint Corp. and its subsidiaries operated as many as 5,000 machines. In some cases they were equipped with little ladders to help the kiddies plunk in their nickels. The machines were protected from the police through an injunction against seizure. They were protected from rival hoodlums by a private police force, whose efficiency is reflected by this report from the company files...
...Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...
...Grandview, Mo., while Harry Tru man's sister, Mary Jane, officiated down town at a cornerstone laying, brother J. Vivian Truman suffered a concussion and back injuries falling out of a hayloft...
What had happened to cause such a storm? Had it been inspired? Harry Tru- man's nomination of Lilienthal last fall had caused no tremor...