Holly Metz
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On February 25, 1938, in the early days of the welfare system, the reviled poormaster Harry Barck--wielding power over who would receive public aid--died from a paper spike thrust into his heart during a scuffle with an unemployed mason named Joe Scutellaro, a fight that occurred when Barak denied Scutellaro welfare money and suggested the man's wife prostitute herself on the streets rather than ask the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, for aid. Scutellaro...