Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Ricchebuono case got big black headlines in New York City as another example of the kind of justice meted out to New Yorkers by the courts of Tammany Hall. Many a similar case had been ferreted out by busy little Isidor Jacob Kresel, able prosecutor for a...
Meanwhile in the supreme court George F. Ewald and his attractive wife went on trial on a charge of paying $10,000 to Tammany Hall underlings for his appointment as magistrate. State witnesses quoted him as boasting of the payment, as speculating out loud about raising $100.000 with which to...
The Plan is Counsel Untermyer's third since 1927. Two previous programs were pigeonholed by the Republican State Legislature for fear patronage of the municipal lines would fall into Tammany's hands, for fear an inflexible 5? fare would not be guaranteed. The new plan seeks to provide...
One judge resigned, two removed, one jailed, one missing-such was the 1930 mortality of New York City's judiciary up to last week, with investigations still going on. To the record last week came additions: one more judge indicted, one more resigned. The indictment was for George F...
Archbishop Hughes was awed by the sublimity of the Immaculate Conception, vowed to build a church to it, began construction the very next year. That Church of the Immaculate Conception was the first in the world dedicated to the new article of Catholic faith. It was to celebrate its 75th...