Word: districts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover wrote curtly to U. S. District Attorney William A. Degroot of Brooklyn, N. Y.: "You are hereby removed from office . . . effective immediately." Cause: inefficiency...
...district leaders of Tammany were glad because John Francis Curry is one of their own kind. He had been elected chief of Tammany over the potent opposition of Alfred Emanuel Smith, between the Tammany district "boys" and whom there is a wide difference, a difference springing from causes which Smith and Tammany bitterly dispute...
...arms 55 years ago. His father was a cattle dealer. He went to work as a messenger boy, ran errands for prominent men. In those days, to be prominent was to be a politician. Young Curry became a politician, too; rose to be a leader in the Fifth District. He was athletic (hurdles, leaping). He was affable and discreet. He early learned that the foundation of popularity in a crowded community is doing little kindnesses for many people. When he challenged the authority of the Fifth District's aging Boss McMahon, he was so strong that...
...cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner, for example-someone who could continue Tammany's influence in the National Democracy...
...York's dapper, smart-cracking Mayor James John Walker, between whom and Mr. Smith little love is left, gave his support to the district leaders. Mr. Curry's election followed. Said Boss Curry: "It's the same old Tammany. ... I have always been opposed to vice and gambling...