All of this is possible because Fannie is a numbers runner.
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Beginning as a numbers runner to earn money, she turned that illegal, but somewhat legitimate business, into a life-long career.
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Larry McShane: Natale's dad was indeed a Philly numbers runner, but it wasn't like he followed the old man into the mob business.
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The numbers runner Shealy (Harvy Blanks) tells the story of the woman who cursed him into seeing her face on that of all subsequent lovers.
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He used to tag along as his father, a numbers runner and loan shark, made his rounds in El Barrio and the South Bronx in the 1970s.
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After losing their apartment, Mr. Santiago's mother, Dolores Guzman, and his father, a numbers runner, moved the family to Avenue D, "a war zone in those days," Mr. Santiago said.
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Davis includes wonderful details about growing up as the daughter of a numbers runner — the coins she and her siblings had to roll, the way her mother counted cash so fast her hands were a blur.
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Written by John Guare and directed by Louis Malle, the offbeat story of Lou, an aging numbers runner (Burt Lancaster), and Sally (Susan Sarandon), the striving young waitress he romances, plays out as the resort town bets its future on becoming a gambling paradise.
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Eldorado Red is a 1974 crime novel by Donald Goines that tells the story of a numbers runner in Detroit who goes by the name Eldorado Red (due to the color and make of his car).
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A down on his luck L.A. taxi driver and numbers runner, Jason Walk (Robert Forster) unwittingly becomes involved and helps her in her quest to survive and take revenge on the people who murdered her family.
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Fitzgerald began skipping school, and her grades suffered. She worked as a lookout at a bordello and with a Mafia-affiliated numbers runner. She never talked publicly about this time in her life. When the authorities caught up with her, she was placed in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Riverdale in the Bronx.
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Memphis is a numbers runner working for a crime boss in Manhattan, one who is widely known throughout Harlem for collecting bets from residents throughout the neighborhood. A diviner, Memphis has the power to heal others, but has not used that power since his failed attempt to heal his mother resulted in her death. Memphis dreams of being a published poet, but cannot pursue that dream while he must take care of his little brother Isaiah. He has feelings for Theta Knight.
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By June the Wolves had disintegrated and all the rest of the teams, except for the Grays, were beyond help, so Posey had to terminate the league. Across town from Posey, Gus Greenlee, a reputed gangster and numbers runner, had just purchased the Pittsburgh Crawfords. Greenlee's main interest in baseball was to use it as a way to launder money from his numbers games. But, after learning about Posey's money-making machine in Homestead, he became obsessed with the sport and his Crawfords.
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Johnson was born on February 1, 1948, in Buffalo, New York, to Mabel (née Sims) and James Ambrose Johnson Sr. He was one of eight children. James's father, an autoworker, left the family when James was 10. His mother was a dancer for Katherine Dunham, and later worked as a numbers-runner to earn a living. James's mother would take him on her collecting route, and it was in bars where she worked that James saw performers such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Etta James perform.
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Like Kimble, he uses a variety of aliases and holds down various jobs while on the run. In the episode "A Clean And Quiet Town", he is credited as "Steve Cramer" and works as a mob-employed numbers runner. In the episode "The Ivy Maze", he poses as a college janitor and groundskeeper named "Carl Stoker". He goes by the name "Fred Johnson" in several episodes; first in the season-two episode "Escape into Black", where he works as a dishwasher using this name.
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Spillane was born on July 13, 1933 to Michael Anthony Spillane and Margaret Curran. Social Security Applications & Claims Index May 1977New York Daily News obituary 15 May 1977 At 16 or 17, he attempted to rob a movie theater, but was shot by a police officer. He spent four years in prison.The Irish Mob, Ep 2: The Irish in Hell's Kitchen - Mickey Spillane & Jimmy Coonan After his release from prison, Spillane started as a numbers runner for various organized crime figures in Hell's Kitchen.
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In 1979, Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) is a numbers runner who is loved in his neighborhood as its respected member and protector. He is betrayed and brutally murdered by corrupt cop Lupovich (Michael T. Weiss) and drug pusher Eddie Mack (Ricky Harris) who then force Jimmy's associates Jeremiah (Clifton Powell) and Shotgun (Ronald Selmour) as well as his lover Pearl (Pam Grier) to take turns stabbing him to death. Afterward, Bones' elegant brownstone building becomes his own tomb and is closed. The timeline flashes forward to 2001, where the neighborhood has become rundown and Jimmy's brownstone building is a condemned ruin.
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Regular taxi cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the residents turn to jitneys—unofficial, unlicensed taxi cabs—that operate in the community. This play portrays the lives of the jitney drivers at the station owned by Jim Becker. We are rapidly introduced to the drivers at the station: recently returned Vietnam veteran Darnell (called Youngblood by the other drivers) who is attempting to build a new life for himself and his family; solid, easy-going Korean War veteran Doub; gossipy hothead Turnbo; and alcoholic Fielding. Flamboyant numbers runner Shealy is not a driver, but uses the station's phone as his base of operations.
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In keeping with its hard-boiled premise, The Punisher included several events rare in Marvel Comics publishing in the mid-1980s: a suicide, the death of an innocent child, and the main character having sexual intercourse. In issue #4, the warden of Rykers Prison (who assisted in the Punisher's prison break) committed suicide when faced with the options of battling the Punisher or going to prison himself. In issue #3, Marcus Coriander, a small-time numbers runner used as a proxy crime boss by the Kingpin, accidentally kills an innocent girl while exchanging gunfire with the Punisher. In issue #2, the Punisher is nursed back to health by Angela, a plant by Punisher's enemies "The Trust".
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In Pittsburgh he held several jobs in the steel mills, shining shoes and driving a cab. He served in the black 367th regiment during World War I. Beginning with the purchase of the Collins Inn in 1924, Greenlee became one of the most influential African American business owners in Pittsburgh, making his reputation as a numbers runner and racketeer, as well as the owner of the Crawford Grill nightclub and the Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team. Despite the rough figure suggested by terms such as "racketeer," Greenlee was known as a philanthropist who helped fellow blacks with scholarships for schooling and with grants to buy homes. Such opportunities were otherwise impossible to come by through white- controlled financial institutions, leading scholars to suggest Greenlee's success be read as an enterprising attempt to fill a need created by segregation.
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