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To: john drake

But, Moe Green lives forever...he built Las Vegas. More or less.


4 posted on 07/19/2015 3:54:26 PM PDT by x1stcav (Trump: He can't be bought and he won't back down.)
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To: x1stcav

Yeah and there is not even a street named after him.


6 posted on 07/19/2015 3:56:06 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: x1stcav

I’ve had my eye out for Moe Green.


7 posted on 07/19/2015 3:56:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: x1stcav
There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada...made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast.

That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!

-- Hyman Roth (in one of the great movie monologues)

14 posted on 07/19/2015 4:23:07 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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