Word: crokers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity Boating: Bailey, stroke; Turner, seven; Pierce, six; Gifford, five; Hazard, four; Croker, three; Koenjger two; Gilkey, bow; and Larner...
...Tammanyites call New York's 16th Congressional District, a long, jagged strip of Manhattan Island that touches Park Avenue, stretches across proletarian jungles under roaring elevated lines and brings up at the piers of the murky East River. There lived and reigned such Tammany greats as Richard Croker and Boss Charles Murphy and in the Gashouse stands Tammany Hall itself. There today live some of Manhattan's poorest and some of its richest, for just uptown from the East River gas tanks that gave the district its name, the rich have built a riverside colony of towering apartment...
Jimmy Hines has never been Tammany's titular Boss, like Richard Croker who was hounded out of the U. S., or William Tweed who was locked behind bars in 1873 for negligence and misconduct in office. Nor has he ever held a job as exalted as Tammany Mayor James J. Walker, who resigned under fire from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. But, running his district like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils...
Millionaire Palm Beachers Edward T. Stotesbury, Barclay H. -Warburton, Joseph E. Wldener, never on good terms with Neighbor Beula Croker, protested loudly when she tried to raise money by subdividing her property and selling it in lots. In 1932 she worked hard for Roosevelt's election, for a time was county relief chairman, ran with no success for Congress. But all such activities were strictly extracurricular. For 15 years Mrs. Croker's life was spent almost entirely in court. She sued her agents, her attorneys, her creditors. She was sued by auctioneers for fees, by State governments...
Along with the property went $800,000 to be paid in back taxes, a vast amount of debts. And Beula Croker's legal affairs are still in such a mess that it may take two or three years of hard litigation to clear the title to all her property...