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Fashions in bosses as well as fashions in political livelihoods change. Boss Tweed (1861-72) went in for peculation and bribery. Boss Murphy (1902-24)-brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. Nowadays construction bonding is the most remunerative of Tam-many-controlled activities, and judgeships are the most luscious appointment plums which the Hall can bestow...
...Manhattan (48th to 51st Streets, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) as a monumental site for the Metropolitan Opera. But the Opera balked. The Rockefeller estate was left with a temporarily useless tract of land. Architects and engineers, who had been licking their chops at the thought of the juiciest contracts in generations, turned glum...
...Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager . . . for reasons best known to himself, has always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican voters, and their loyal Republican friend, Hon. R. B. Creager, be able to hold...
...stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed the yak, a draft animal, with cattle, getting beef even finer-grained than steer's meat. Present Canadian experiments are upon a "yakattalo," a tri-brid that may prove juiciest...
...Club last week, Harry Cooper, new 21-year-old English professional of the Tenison Park Club (Dallas, Tex.), scored 279 (nine under par), led a field including Joe ("Trick Shot") Kirkwood, Al Espinosa, "Auld" John Black, and Amateurs George von Elm and Charles Chung (Hawaiian champion). Cooper collected the juiciest of typically Los Angelic prize-money...