Author: mtc9393

You heard of the Winter Hill Gang (WHG) I assume. That was the gang James “Whitey” Bulger supposedly headed up. He never did. I do not suppose you can tell me when it started, or where it’s headquarters we’re located; or how long it existed; or who were in it; or whether it was a gang…

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Merry Christmas to all.

In September 1935 Ickes announced that the WPA was planning at doing a second housing project in South Boston on a 23-acre parcel of land almost adjacent to the first site chosen. They had secured options to buy it before making the public announcement. Ickes tried to allay the concerns of other landlords in the…

Ickes had the support of his fellow progressive Republicans but also the Blacks and Native Americans both minority groups he had assisted over the years. His “experience of poverty contributed in his believe the men of wealth and privilege subverted democratic institutions, robbed he people, and exploited the public domain.” Ickles had Robert C. Weaver…

When President Calvin Coolidge was on vacation he decided not to run for re-election explaining to reporters: “If I take another term, I will be in the White House till 1933 … Ten years in Washington is longer than any other man has had it—too long!” The candidate then chosen by the Republicans was Herbert Hoover….