Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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from rank you were supposed to go to Leonard to get it from
him.
R ~ b y ?
: How did Dr. Morrissey and Dr. Powers fit in with
Lewis: Well, they were in with curran and Pollack, they said.
In the neighborhood Powers had the drugstore at Elm Avenue
where Murphy's is. And then they finally sold that property
and moved out to Chestnut Avenue. That's where they went and
went out of business. One of them died, the other one was
gist: down at the Penitentiary. Dr. Morrissey was about 3 drug-
houses below that alley on Roland Avenue below 37th Street,
3-store house. He was a coroner around here, the last
coxonex that is before they took all that down the morgue
downtown. And they . . .
Rawes: They sort of go out as Pollack came in?
Lewis: Then Pollack kept building up in the neighborhood and
through his club over there - Jack Pollack's Club - just
like the Stonewall Club put McGuirk in office. McGuirk's
a big leader in South Baltimore with that Stonewall Club.
Harvey: Did people in Hampden oppose Jack Pollack?
Lewis: Oh, a lot of people opposed him all over Baltimore
City, but he had too much money behind him.
In other words,
you take Jackson, you take D' AZesandro I the old
man). Of course, he didn't last too long in it . .
You see what they do, where they get their
business agenda - they helped elect these men. So you got
a bunch of dmp trucks and you want to hire them out to
the city, right?
The only way you can hire them out to