Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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LEWIS;099 II:2:56
See, all the big bosses had them big stone houses.
But politics was never talked in them places, just like the
bonze wasn't allowed out here - different things was taboo
out here. And, I mean, the Carroll place down there: their
estate down there - that was a beautiful place. But, of
course, the last Carroll that was living just wasn't all
there and down. Prank Robey's wife was a
Joeckal. They lived around here. Well, her brother still
lives down here. Frank come in from E llicott City, that's
where he come from originally. Ha worked in mills out in
Ellicott City, came here during World War I, the beginning
of it. And then he stayed here. There's a lot of them did.
Harvey: Rww about Jack Pollack - what effect did he have
on politics?
Lewis: Well, Jack Pollack come here f rom New York, Jack
Pollack beat a murder rap in New York and come here and
old Mrs. Bernschmidt fought him to a grand standstill,
Harvey: Who did?
Lewis: Mrs. Bernsehmidt - Pred ~ernschmidt" wife, the
beer man's wife. Of course, the beer man was dead before
World War went dry. George ~ernschmidt's beer GBS.
And she fought him to a standstill. And she told people
what was going to happen: she told them the truth. Today,
the gamblers have control of politics; no question about
it. They said Dewey ran in New York, and
Dewey was State's Attorney in New York, Came down here and