Word: roofer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Designer Willet happily put Architect Carroll at the bottom of the window, looking pale, and the stained-glass craftsman at the top, under a benevolent angel. A vine etched in gold joins the 14 figures in between-iron worker, excavator, stone mason, carpenter, woodcarver, electrician, roofer, plumber, plasterer, painter-and lettering sets forth: "We Are Laborers Together; Let Every Man Take Heed How He Buildeth...
...income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty, stopped, grinned. "You fellows will have to fill in the rest for yourselves," he said...
...Capitol plaza was No Man's Land last week. Some 700 ragged, hungry veterans arrived from the Pacific Coast to join the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to besiege Congress for immediate cashing of their adjusted service certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage...
Last week Arthur J. McHugh, who supplements his Manhattan roofing business by running a stable for animals, revealed the financial difficulties of many an animal-act man. Roofer McHugh has at various times boarded lions, camels, zebras, elephants, kangaroos, snakes, bears, horses, dogs. He charges by the space they occupy. Room for small animals costs 50¢ per day. Elephants take up three times as much space as their total area because keepers must allow for trunk-swinging. An elephant's quarters cost from...
...with a can of condensed milk, a few pounds of potatoes, a loaf of whole wheat bread daily. Good meat for dogs can be had for 10¢ a pound. But dog acts often require many animals. Last fortnight Bill Blomberg, vaudeville performer, stationed his 32 unemployed Alaskan huskies with Roofer McHugh, fed them about 50 Ib. of meat three times a week. Elephants eat the most. They need at least a $2.50 bale of hay every day. Living in Roofer McHugh's stable last week were an unemployed boxing kangaroo, four elephants, five ponies, one mule, 33 dogs, three monkeys...