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...York City was created by a special dispensation of Providence for the benefit of the patriotic Society of St. Tammany. Tammany's serious troubles began in 1932 when the Democratic Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt, with his eye on the Presidency was obliged to investigate charges of graft and corruption against Tammany's dapper, wisecracking mayor, Jimmy Walker. When the hearing got too hot, Jimmy Walker resigned. Automatically Joseph V. McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord...
Baseball team leaves for week's tour of South--Lincoln Steffeus lectures in Union on graft...
There has been considerable sportsmanlike interest of late in sending a Harvard ambulance to the Spanish Loyalists. There has also been the usual talk of Harvard Reds and graft. I should like to add to the talk, but in a different vein...
...whole transaction except the fee bill which I enclose. There was no carbon on the pad from which this was torn. I do not say that a record was not made later but I DO say that the whole mess stinks to the high heavens as a petty chiselling graft, taking advantage of men who cannot afford to pay such fines. Not so petty at that if you figure a dozen or so commercial out-of-State travellers per day. This estimate is not high as this route is the accepted all-year route from the Coast to the Southeast...
...cannot graft them on our system any more than you can graft a Siberian crab apple to an oak. . . . They are exotic." Most of the audience had grown some fruit, and they knew Squire Baldwin has also pruned off the British oak its exotic topmost leaf Edward VIII. They raised lusty cheers for the Prime Minister and returned the mellow words with which he left them: "God bless...