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When he was unexpectedly elevated to the executive director’s position in 1942, Tobin quickly instilled at the Port Authority a disciplined, hierarchical, but deeply communitarian ethos designed to serve not power but a higher moral purpose.
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James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America))
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Church and state knew no separation in the Jersey City of my youth. Together they presided over a strict private morality and a thriving public pilferage.
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James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America))