Albert J. Adams (1845 – October 1, 1906) was known as The Policy King and the Meanest Man in New York. He ran the numbers game in New York City from around 1890 to around 1905.
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“It takes a heap o livin in a house t make it home,
A heap o sun an shadder, an ye sometimes have t roam
Afore ye really preciate the things ye lef behind,
An hunger fer em somehow, with em allus on yer mind.”
—Edgar Albert Guest (18811959)
“In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)