Word: binaggio
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Year will certainly be Harry S. Truman-and with him Harry Bridges, John Lewis, Phil Murray, Allan Haywood, Dan Tobin, Charley Binaggio. God help...
Smooth, slick-haired and hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press...