Word: sachems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Col. Edward Mandell House (73), Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians (55), George Bernard Shaw (75), George Foster Peabody, retired banker, philanthropist (79), John R. Voorhis, Tammany Grand Sachem...
...Society of Tammany, patriotic mainspring of New York City's practical Democratic machine, violated its own by-laws for the 19th consecutive time last week when it allowed John R. Voorhis to continue for another year as Grand Sachem. Under its rules a Grand Sachem serves one year, cannot be reelected. Mr. Voorhis was chosen Grand Sachem in 1912 when he was 83. He has served ever since as honorary head of Tammany Hall through the inability of the Sachems to muster a majority vote in favor of someone else. Each passing year they have expected Time to settle...
Crain. After a mysterious conference with Governor Roosevelt, Referee Samuel Seabury began to wind up his hearing of misfeasance charges against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain, aged Tammany Sachem. In contrast to the dubious witnesses who have come before the inquiry for the past eight weeks was the appearance of Dr. Raymond Mcley, professor of public law at Columbia University. Professor Moley gave damaging testimony against Sachem Crain not by word of mouth but by a series of pitilessly clear charts which told in bold, graphic fashion the story of Mr. Crain's sorry administration. The Columbia pedagog...
Legislative Inquiry. With the ambiguous clearing of Mayor Walker and the growing certainty that the Governor will be unable to exonerate ineffectual Sachem Grain, Tammany girded up its loins for a bitter technical battle against the legislative investigation committee whose chiefs conferred in Manhattan late last week...
Acting on the City Club's charges, Governor Roosevelt took advantage of the public office law. To hear Sachem Grain's defense at a private trial he appointed Samuel Seabury, the referee of judiciary and police inquiry, which last week sent its first policeman to jail for perjury. When Mr. Grain learned whom his judge was to be he protested, pointing out that Referee Seabury was not only a well-known Tammany foe, but a member of the City Club; and that he had already publicly criticized the District Attorney's office...