Word: sachems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Installed. Dr. Thomas Darlington, 73, of Manhattan; as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society (Hall) to succeed the late centenarian John Richard Voorhis (TIME...
Died. John Richard Voorhis, 102, Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society; of old age; in Manhattan. For 58 years he held public office in New York City, beginning as Excise Commissioner. At various times he had been Commissioner of Docks, of Elections, of Public Works, a police justice, State Superintendent of Elections and from 1918 until his retirement last year president of the Board of Elections. He was posthumously made Great Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, first so honored since George Washington...
Died. Chief Stronghorse, 70, Grand Sachem of the surviving 24 councils of the Algonquin Indian tribe; after a lingering illness; in Cranston...
...days of racing off Newport ended the cruise. Twenty-two year old Elizabeth ("Sis") Hovey, sailing her father's Istalena, beat Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (called "Chick" by fellow yachtsmen) in the Vanitie to win the Astor Cup for sloops; Rowe B. Metcalf's Sachem won the Astor Cup for schooners. Next day, in a fine fresh breeze, Weetamoe won the cup presented by King George V, beating Valiant by one second over the 30-mile triangular course...
...first capacity he has had eight policemen indicted, sent six others to prison, removed two magistrates, sent three scampering off under fire. In his capacity as the Governor's representative to hear malfeasance charges against doddering District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain of New York County, Tammany Sachem, he had not, up to last weekend, reported his conclusions. As the Legislature's agent he was pressing his queries into the political machinery of sprawling Queens Borough, and even into the private financial affairs of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, who started off last week on another of his famed vacations...