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The Toughest One: A Short Short Story
Munching an apple, Mugsy walked out of the tenement house door and swaggered down the steps. Once in the street, he paused to survey his domain: an old woman wearing a black shawl; Swede, the janitor, dumping ashes; a couple of little boys sucking on sugar sticks....
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Title: The Toughest One: A Short Short Story
Creator: Owen Crump (author)
Date: January 30, 1937
Format: Article
Publication: The President's Birthday Magazine
Publisher: National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President to Fight Infantile Paralysis
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Control no.: RJ 496 P2 P7 1937
Location: p.29
Keywords: Advocacy; Birthday Balls; Charity; Children; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Fundraising; Georgia; Media; National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis; Physical Disability; Polio; Poverty; Public Relations; Rehabilitation; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities; Urban Life; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute