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1927?New York Alderman...
...York's Harlem, Alderman Fred R. Moore, editor of the New York Age, Negro weekly, sued his hated competitor Amsterdam News for $100,000, reported the fact down two columns of his paper...
Graduated from New York Law School in 1893, young Samuel Seabury almost immediately took to politics. Aged 24, he was nominated for Alderman by the Citizens' Union. This he refused in order to campaign for Single Taxer Henry George, who died without knowing his cause ' was so disastrously lost. Subsequently he ran for office as a Democrat, a Republican, on Fusion and Progressive tickets. He was made a judge of the City Court in 1901, a judge of the Supreme Court (with Tammany backing) five years later, was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1914. For almost every office...
...architect, an alderman, a man of wealth is clever little Purchaser Bossom. Like Sculptor Epstein he is of Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress...
William Hale Thompson was born in Boston May 14, 1869, scion of a wealthy and respectable family. In 1900 after playcowboying in Wyoming, he took a $50 bet in the Chicago Athletic Club from his friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election...