Killing the Poormaster Quotes

“But the animosity in Hoboken was different, somehow—deeper.15”
― Holly Metz, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

“Tax dollars were obviously not going toward the maintenance of public buildings. One did not have to be an engineer or a building inspector to notice that the city’s schools, its firemen’s quarters—even city hall—were rotting.”
― Holly Metz, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

“How was it that Union City, a comparably sized Hudson County municipality (58,659 residents compared to Hoboken’s 59,261) had spent $6.34 per capita on relief in 1937, while Hoboken had spent just 90 cents? Hoboken’s ratables per capita, at $1,466, had exceeded Union City’s $1,134.37”
― Holly Metz, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

“made out to grocer William Schmidt at 941 Garden Street.”
― Holly Metz, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

“Continental Baking Company, Ninth and Clinton Streets,”
― Holly Metz, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

“Ralph Corrado, baker; Nicholas Russo, laborer; Joseph Scutellaro, mason and carpenter.”
― Holly Metz, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression