Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressman LaGuardia keeps more than the U. S. Judiciary under his alert little eye. Last year, as the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City, he charged "a loathsome scandal" in the city judiciary, accused a Tammany judge, Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, of having borrowed money from Arnold Rothstein...
Gold's parents came from Rumania to a Manhattan East Side tenement in Chrystie Street. They were orthodox Jews, decent, kindly people, believed in dybbuks (evil spirits). Manhattan tenement life shocked their kindliness and decency, did not shake their faith in evil spirits. Chrystie Street was in the red...
Father Gold was a housepainter, until he fell from a scaffold and broke all the bones in his feet. He was also a wonderful storyteller: some of his tales took weeks to finish. Mike discovered afterward that they came from the Arabian Nights: his father had heard them in Oriental...
"Shame upon those in authority who will permit such a humiliating, disgraceful and dangerous thing to happen! Vhere are the white men of self-respect, of race pride? The great white race is the climax and crowning glory of God's creation. . . . The present disgusting and deplorable situation in New...
When he was 73 and she 23, the late great Tammany Chieftain Richard Croker married Kotaw Kaluntuchy (Bula Benton Edmondson), descendant of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. She had sung, lectured on Indians, ridden a horse at New York's Hippodrome. She studied enough law to defend...