Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammany has one greater difficulty: if it does not dominate the politics of the other boroughs, it will be dominated by them. The Democratic boss of The Bronx is Edward J. Flynn, an oldtime henchman of Jim Farley and onetime Secretary of State in Governor Franklin Roosevelt's State cabinet. He and Boss Kelly of Brooklyn, Boss Sheridan of Queens and Boss Fetherston of Richmond agreed on a ticket. When Tammany met it was split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name...
...Elected. When Mayor LaGuardia was elected he found himself in charge of a city which had a debt of $1,800,000,000, about 50% greater than the public debt of the U. S. when he was elected to Congress in 1916. He found a city accustomed to living on an annual budget of $600,000,000. Tammany in election year had cut the budget to $551,000,000, but it was still $30,000,000 out of balance and when Mr. LaGuardia stepped in he found that Tammany had reduced the apparent size of the budget by simply omitting...
Talent Scout (Warner Bros.) : amiable comedy about the difficulties of discovering potential cinemactors, the even greater difficulties of capitalizing such discoveries, smoothly acted by a cast whose only well-known member is Donald Woods...
...Christ and the Thieves which the National Gallery in Berlin bought for $10,000 in 1930. There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part of the exhibition was devoted to specimens of the cubist, futurist and surrealist schools whose experiments with scientific form and fantastic subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this...
Elected-John Stewart Baker, board chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co.: to be President of the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York, succeeding Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who resigned after having held the position since...