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...Flynn [McKee's boss] is as light as a half-burned match." And should Judge Seabury, LaGuardia's boss, come into power, "He will, in my opinion, give us an example of iron discipline and arbitrary action that will make the town sigh for the gentleness of Croker or the softness of Murphy...
...graft. The resultant reform movement sent Tammany Boss Richard Croker scurrying to exile in Ireland, by huge majorities elected William L. Strong mayor, made Theodore Roosevelt commissioner of police. Died. Robert Augustus Chesebrough. 96, retired president of Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., inventor of vaseline, a founder of the New York Real Estate Board; of old age; in Spring Lake...
...student sue his father for a college education? Last fortnight one tried it. He was William Volkmar Scharr Smith, son of Augustus Volkmar Scharr Smith, a Manhattan lawyer who once handled the affairs of Tammany Boss Richard Croker. Four years ago Student Smith entered the University of Colorado at Boulder. For part of his expenses he got loans from Boulder banks on the strength of a verbal agreement, later confirmed in writing, by which he claimed his father had agreed to defray them. Student Smith also helped support himself by waiting on table, tending furnaces. Tall and heavyset, he became...
...expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested filibusters (never lost a case). Occasionally he made a voyage himself, but his usefulness was greater on shore. Raising money for the rebel Cubans was part of his job. Biggest single contribution ($30,000) he got from Tammany's Boss Croker. Propaganda was another part. He admits that Hearst and the yellow press were a great help in spreading Spanish atrocity stories, rousing U. S. sympathies for the revolting Cubans. The Junta's agents had to be organized but kept under cover: one of their men was made Pullman conductor...
...Like most New York bosses, Mr. Curry is of Irish descent and distinguished himself by early physical prowess, in his case footracing. Until his election in 1903 to the State Senate he was a Western Union telegraph operator. He is a devout churchman, speaks quietly and?unlike Bosses Tweed, Croker and Kelly?prefers to remain out of the picture as much as possible...