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...York City politicians dropped into the Board of Elections office one morning last week to shake the hand of an old man there presiding. His name was John R. Voorhis; his age, 98. The occasion for congratulations was his 17th anniversary as Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall...
...Grand Sachem Voorhis, by no means feeble, thanked everyone and announced that he hoped to pass his 100th birthday with Alfred Emanuel Smith in the White House. He also said: "Everybody talks about Tammany . . . but hardly anyone seems to know. To listen to them talk you'd think that the Tammany Society was one and the same thing as the Democratic party of this city. But it's not. The Democratic party became connected with Tammany only because it began years ago to hold its meetings in our hall...
Blease v. Diplomats. Last week when Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, Grand Patriarch of I. O. O. F. of S. C., Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, etc., etc., heard that 14-year-old Henry A. Howard, son of British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Esme Howard, had injured a little girl in an automobile accident in Washington, D. C., he interrupted the business of the Senate with the following...
Married. Francis Dawson Gallatin, 55, Tammany Hall Sachem, president of the Manhattan Park Board, Commissioner of Parks, great-grandson of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, (1801-16) to Dorothy C. Brady, 23, a publicity agent...
Died. Thomas F. ("Big Tom") Foley, 73. Tammany sachem; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. Next to the late Charles F. Murphy, he has wielded the greatest power in Tammany Hall in the last 15 years...