Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany Hall, in offering two candidates for the position of sheriff lately held by Thomas A. Farley seems more anxious than usual to get control of an office and less confident of doing so. The last incumbent, who was asked to resign as a result of the Seabury investigation, was...
Into the office of the District Attorney of New York County last week marched Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, a Tammany boss from his No. 12 shoes to his No. 8 derby hat, to surrender for two grand larceny indictments. Fingerprinted, he wiped off the smudge and genially remarked: "This is...
Onetime Sheriff Culkins was accused of scalping $25.000 in this manner during his term of office. Sheriff Farley admitted that he had taken $6,000 in interest pay ments, was vexed to discover that he had overlooked more. He claimed he was legally entitled to it. Large, black-browed, fat...
Had the Gilbert Stuart Washington been permitted to enter the inner sanctum of that Commission, he would have been amazed. Through a 25 ft. hallway ornamented with portraits of himself and his wife, he would have reached a small cubicular office in which, almost submerged by the litter of trinkets...
Died. John Richard Voorhis, 102, Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society; of old age; in Manhattan. For 58 years he held public office in New York City, beginning as Excise Commissioner. At various times he had been Commissioner of Docks, of Elections, of Public Works, a police justice, State Superintendent...