Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the office of the District Attorney of New York County last week marched Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, a Tammany boss from his No. 12 shoes to his No. 8 derby hat, to surrender for two grand larceny indictments. Fingerprinted, he wiped off the smudge and genially remarked: "This is one of the things that happens. You have to take it as it comes." Also indicted and arrested on the same day was Sheriff Farley's predecessor, Charles W. Culkins. For both the charge was the same: embezzlement of interest on litigants' funds of which they were...
Onetime Sheriff Culkins was accused of scalping $25.000 in this manner during his term of office. Sheriff Farley admitted that he had taken $6,000 in interest pay ments, was vexed to discover that he had overlooked more. He claimed he was legally entitled to it. Large, black-browed, fat-jowled, Sheriff Farley had more to bother about last week than embezzlement, for he was liable to be summarily removed from office by Governor Roosevelt. Two months ago Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the legislative committee probing Tammany corruption, sent the Governor a list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded...
Governor Roosevelt's announcement was welcomed by his pre-convention campaign organization, with steam up and ready to go. His chief campaigner was James A. Farley...
...Harvard team of 1898 had in its starting lineup four men who were to direct Harvard coaching for 14 of the next 17 years. They were B. H. Dibblee '99, W. T. Reid '01, J. W. Farley '99, and P. D. Haughton '99. Dibblee took over the burden of coaching when Forbes was appointed Governor General of the Philippines. In 1900, Yale put one of its greatest teams on the field to defeat a stubborn Harvard team 28 to 0. The statistics of this game show that Yale gained a total of 555 yards for rushing against 153 for Harvard...
...Harvard team of 1898 had in its starting lineup four men who were to direct Harvard coaching for 14 of the next 17 years. They were B. H. Dibblee '99, W. T. Reid '01, J. W. Farley '99, and P. D. Haughton '99. Dibblee took over the burden of coaching when Forbes was appointed Governor General of the Philippines. In 1900, Yale put one of its greatest teams on the field to defeat a stubborn Harvard team 28 to 0. The statistics of this game show that Yale gained a total of 555 yards for rushing against 153 for Harvard...