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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bums & Gandy-Dancers. Charles Binaggio started modestly enough, in the Kansas City underworld nurtured by the late Boss Tom Pendergast. The storm that swept old Tom into prison passed him by, and he was arrested only occasionally on gambling and bootlegging charges. He took over the heavily Italian First Ward with its flophouse bums, indigents, and gandy-dancers, slowly began building back the lopsided majorities of Pendergast days. He took cuts on gambling, used his "influence" to sell Canadian Ace Beer, a brew produced by prosperous relicts of the old Capone syndicate in Chicago. He bought a handsome house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Murder on Truman Road | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...serious as anything else, however, was the Italian national habit of dismissing all economic problems with a reference to Italy's population problem. Said Zellerbach, "Large population can be a challenge as well as a problem." If Italy's 1,800,000 unemployed and 2,000,000 underemployed could get work at normal wages, the nation's home market would be increased by at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Plain Talk | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Monopoly-minded Italian businessmen, said Businessman Zellerbach (Crown Zellerbach Paper Corp.), had. grown soft through lack of domestic competition, hence were too soft-shelled for competition in tougher international markets. It was largely their fault that exports to the U.S. had declined from $90 million in 1948 to $45 million in 1949. To remedy matters, suggested Zellerbach, businessmen must emphasize smaller profits on larger volume, and realize that "antimonopoly action is an integral part of the recovery program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Plain Talk | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...government, too, was dragging its feet, Zellerbach continued. A system of taxation which puts 43 taxes on a man's morning cup of coffee "tends to discourage business initiative and increase costs." Another obstacle to economic progress was the Italian bureaucracy. "A friend visited me," recounted the EGA chief, "and noticed a rug made here in Italy. He asked me to send samples and prices. After a month or two of trying to get all the necessary permits . . . my secretary gave up in despair, and the samples were never sent. Undoubtedly, much business has been lost for Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Plain Talk | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...done time for a sexual offense against a child, is encouraged by his sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once bought, the nymphomaniac plucks and disembowels a live bullfinch under the child's eyes. So it goes on, to the last story, in which a male cocotte humiliates a middle-aged woman he dislikes by luring her husband back to the homosexuality he gave up after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surprise Around the Corner | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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