Word: als
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing...
...AL SMITH "GIVE THE PEOPLE BEER By repealing the Volstead Act." Mr. Athey said that 20,000,000 cards would be sent out before election. He predicted 5,000,000 Wet pledges...
...merger of Dodge Bros., Inc., with the Chrysler Corp. (TIME, June 11), largest consolidation in automobile history. Memorable in the history of Wall Street, Grand Canyon of the G. O. P., was the unfurling, last week, of the first Democratic campaign banner "in 44 years. Truckman James J. Reardon, Al Smith musketeer, inspired the display. The Lower Wall Street Business Men's Organization* sponsored it. Memorable for employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test...
...Arnold Yerby), a distaste for liquor and a profound belief in the principles of the Democratic party. Last month, he surprised Chicago and surprised himself by going to Houston as a delegate-at-large from Illinois. Hidden among the Irish cohorts of Boss Brennan, Teetotaler Traylor studied the party, Al Smith, Tammany. Last week, he explained: "The drawback to politics in this country is that business men do not take enough interest in it. ... Professional politicians are necessary. . . . The Democratic party is now in the hands of a conservative element...
...Al Heron of Reading, Pa., finished two strokes behind Compston. Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, who looked like a winner, blew up near the finish...