Word: victrola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already partially forgotten five years before. A pudgy Irish youth, the son of a day laborer who raised a large family in Wallingford, Conn, and Brooklyn, he had stopped going to school when he was 15, sold candy on trains, acted in small time vaudeville, been an agent for Victrola records. There was nothing then to confirm his impression that he was a singer except the fact that his mother, annoyed by his childish caterwaulings, had often given him a nickel to keep quiet. Tammany Politician James Hagan helped him get jobs?the first one singing ten times...