Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principality of Tammany, Government of Manhattan's Democrats, solved the problem of its search for a Prince to succeed the late boss Charles F. Murphy. The Prince Tammany wanted could not be had, and no man who could be had was the Prince Tammany wanted. The solution of the problem was simple. The principality dissolved itself into an oligarchy...
...empowered to rule until July 15. The rule, it is said, will be in the interests of the Presidential candidacy of Governor Al Smith. Besides, it will place inimical cartoonists at a disadvantage; they could otherwise display Candidate Smith as a puppet on the string of Tammany's boss...
Under the two-thirds rule which holds in Democratic Conventions Mr. McAdoo will need 732 votes ?some 300 more?to be nominated. Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, anti-McAdoo leader, challenged McAdoo to advocate a change to a Dimple majority requirement for nomination. Under a majority-vote rule McAdoo would need only 550 votes?about 150 more than he now has. If Mr. McAdoo is to be nominated, such a change would make the matter simpler. On the other hand, if Mr. McAdoo is not to be nominated, the change would make it less easy...
Tammany was without a chieftain. Charles F. Murphy was dead. Tammany was looking for a new Prince. Tammany chose James A. Foley. Foley was a son-in-law of Murphy- had married the Tammany boss's adopted daughter. He had been in both Houses of the State Legislature of New York. He had a good job on the bench as Surrogate. He was not anxious to succeed his father-in-law. Mr. Foley was not anxious to be boss of Tammany, but his wife, who had been the daughter of a Tammany boss, was determined not to be wife...
...land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler (Donald Gallagher). Here he furnishes orchestrations and harmonies for the musically illiterate composers of song hits and barely succeeds in supporting an exceedingly beautiful daughter (Betty Weston). To his horror he finds his boss putting out Moonlight Mama, a hit founded on the treasured composition of his youth. Worse, his daughter marries Al Tyler to save her father from starvation. But all comes right in the end. Tyler, better than he looks, splits the royalties in the song success with old Henkel...