Word: deathwatch
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...trust, had surrounded himself with incompetents and, most important of all, was unable to account for a personal fortune of $357,000. Governor Roosevelt was trying to sift these matters and to decide whether he should remove Sheriff Farley from office. High above the heads of the Tammany deathwatch, whose votes might mean the Governor's nomination and election to the Presidency this summer and next autumn, hung a portrait of Grover Cleveland, a New York Governor who bucked Tammany, went to the White House on the slogan: "Public Office is a Public Trust...