Word: m
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York. In Manhattan, Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, society widow, defeated Phelps Phelps, "Tammany Republican" for a G. O. P. nomination for Congress. In Queens, queer, sprawling borough, of New York City, lately notorious for a sewer-pipe scandal, the political heir of the scandalized Democratic administration, Bernard M. Patten, was renominated for Borough President, beating a "clean government" candidate...
...candidate of Tammany, that institution which bitterly fought and assailed Lincoln; which left no stone unturned to defeat that great progressive leader, William Jennings Bryan; which is wide open to the charge of having traded its strength in 1924 against the interests of the candidacy of Robert M. LaFollette, the greatest of all leaders of progressive thought...
...Charles M. Galloway, U. S. Civil Service Commissioner under President Wilson, reminded people that the executive order upon which Departmental political regulations are based was issued by President Cleveland a generation ago and that it specifies that "no Presidential appointee or other unclassified employee . . . will be permitted ... to display such obtrusive partisanship as to cause public scandal ... to use his position to interfere with an election or to affect the result thereof...
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer of the New York Supreme Courtis a tall, scholarly-looking, soft-spoken Jew, originally from Mobile. He plays golf, goes to the opera, wears a cropped mustache. The criticism against his indulging in politics during a judicial career is four years old. He has assisted every Smith campaign since he received his Smith appointment. Astute, suave, he strives especially to dignify and represent the "New Tammany...
...humanitarian, a framer of public school legislation, a philanthropist whose chief work is the Boys Club Federation, of which he is the national president. He educated himself at night school, after he was 20. His insurance agency is said to be the largest in the U. S. "I'm in politics just to help my friends," he says. He is credited with knowing more about national politics than any one else in the Brown Derby's home office...