Word: sachems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prodigal Parents is notable only for the stern tone it adopts toward the Communist Party and for its sympathetic portrait of the type of U. S. businessman Lewis has previously satirized. The story revolves around the rebellion of Frederick William Cornplow, a plump, prosperous, middle-aged automobile dealer of Sachem Falls, N. Y., who is a dead ringer for Babbitt...
...speech were the New Deal Democrats, who denounced him as a pitiable, embittered old has-been; Republicans and anti-New Dealers, who proclaimed that Al Smith's popularity would swing several doubtful states into the Republican column. In a local Tammany club on Manhattan's East Side, Sachem Al Smith's picture was taken from the wall because "we don't want the picture of any Benedict Arnold around here...
...Leader voted out of office in Tammany history. Dazed, the old man looked from face to face about him. "I am at a loss to know why some of you voted against me. . . . Didn't I call you up Monday to tell you I was making you a Sachem. . . . Why, only 15 minutes of 5 today I did a favor for you. ... I hope you have as much success with your new leader as with me. ..." The vote that ended the Curry rule...
...field of New York City politics looked cleared entirely for Tammany Hall. A mayoral election comes this autumn and on the scene loomed no figure of importance except Distinguished Citizen Al Smith, who almost certainly would not lead a fusion ticket against his good friend and fellow Tammany Sachem, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien...
...Democratic ticket no good. . . . Rather than jeopardize the hopes of democracy in the nation which I feel my candidacy might do I request that my name be withheld from the convention." "We want Jimmy!" yelled the delegates, booing the reference to Governor Roosevelt. But after a Tammany sachem had delivered a nominating speech hastily scribbled on his knee, Surrogate O'Brien was chosen automatically. Applause was perfunctory. Half the delegates walked out during his acceptance speech...