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Reelected. John R. Yoorhis, 99, New York City Board of Elections president; to be Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, New York City...
...elected. John R. Voorhis, 99, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; to be president of the board of elections of New York City...
Canada's Sena tor George Dessaulles is a year older than Miss Howland. Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, John R. Voorhis, is a year younger. Practically every day he goes to work...
...train, energetic, cordial. . . . Some Montana Indians replaced the Brown Derby with eagle feathers and named the wearer Chief Leading Star. They daubed his face with warpaint. . . . . . . The Sioux of North Dakota produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight...
...have listened to a great deal of public and very caustic criticism of Tammany, and I asked myself the question: How can anything live in this country 139 years that is not all right? . . . Worthy Grand Sachem, I could speak on this platform for an hour and a half on the record and history of the Tammany Society as dedicated to the principles set forth in the Constitution of this Government. ... I will conclude with a congratulation and thanks to the society of which I am proud to be a member and an officer...