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| Archives From Prisons in New York Are Digitized |
| By nytimes.com- Sam Roberts |
| Published: 07/07/2014 |
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Salvatore Lucania showed promise. At 8 years old in 1905 he arrived from Palermo, Sicily, and by the time he was a teenager he was earning $6 a week as a shipping clerk for the Goodman Hat Company in Lower Manhattan. Within five years, he had gotten a 33 percent pay increase as a laborer for the Gem Toy Company. The following year, he was supporting himself, making $8 a week, plus tips, as a barber. Those tips must have been pretty hefty. Or, he must have lived very frugally. Or, maybe, he was just lucky. By June 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, he had done so well for a 38-year-old with a sixth-grade education who last held a full-time job in 1922, that for the last seven months he had been living at the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Read More. |
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