Description: Crime, Corruption & Politics in Hull, Massachusetts, American Chronicles... If you lived in Hull, Massachusetts, during the first four decades of the twentieth century, you were susceptible to two forces: the political machinations of Boss John Smith and the vitriolic editorial columns of Hull Beacon publisher Floretta Vining. Smith ran the town with an iron fist through fixed elections, padlocked town meetings, kickbacks, graft and bribes. Vining reported on it all and fought it like no other Progressive Era woman could, using newsprint space to lash out at girls who chewed gum in public and small boys who made too much noise at night, and calling for old men over sixty years of age to simply be put to sleep. Hull Times contributor and local historian John Galluzzo brings back the days of Vining and Smith, of steamboats and trains, of Paragon Park and the grand hotels of Nantasket Beach. In this accessible history, the reader gets a ringside seat to some of the most heated political battles in the history of the South Shore, fought in town halls and occasionally spilling into the streets of the once quiet and peaceful Hull Village.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781596291263
Book Title: Crime, Corruption and Politics in Hull : the Rise and Fall of Boss Smith's Old Ring
Item Length: 9.4in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.2in
Author: Not Available
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Corruption & Misconduct, Sociology / General, History & Theory, General, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, ME, NH, Ri, VT), Political, American Government / State
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Genre: Photography, Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 0.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
