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When a man, 73, marries a woman, 23, the press is interested. When, in 1914, the man happened to be scandalously rich old-time Tammany Boss Richard Wellstead Croker the press was convulsed with excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker...
...Council (called "The Forty Thieves") and set up a Board of Police Commissioners, the history of New York City has been studded with drives against crime and corruption. In 1871 it was Samuel Tilden versus Boss Tweed, in the early 1900's Rev. Charles Parkhurst versus Boss Richard Croker, in the late 90's Theodore Roosevelt versus gamblers and scofflaw saloonkeepers, in 1902-09 William Travers Jerome versus vice and gambling, in 1905 Charles Evans Hughes versus insurance companies. Charles S. Whitman's sensational exposure of official corruption in his prosecution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker...
Died. Lincoln Steffens, 70, famed old-time muckraker; of heart disease; in Carmel, Calif. A bearded, sparkling, elfish skeptic, he exposed Tammany's Boss Croker, Cincinnati's Boss Cox, publicized Cleveland's Reformer Tom Johnson, Wisconsin's Reformer Robert La Follette, concluded in his Autobiography that bosses "seemed more honest" than reformers...
...Johnson's digestion was evidently not quite so satisfactory. His attack on the NRA can satisfy neither its most prominent critics nor its most prominent supporters. In short it has more or less the effect of a Parkhurst sermon in uniting Republican boss Platt and Tammany boss Croker...
...relatives to whom he flung the bounteous purse of the city pay-roll was declared, after investigation, to be 39. And the thirty-nine McQuades have occupied and will occupy a foremost place in the annals of municipal government in America, rubbing shoulders with their fellow townsmen, Tweed and Croker, Walker and Mugs O'Brien...