Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On the same day as the New York financial report, showing that some thirty two million dollars has been spent in excess of receipts, and that the city has a debt exceeding two billion dollars, is published the final report of the Seabury investigation. For almost six months the newspapers...
The Seabury report is not a more indictment of New York politicians. To be sure, it shows that Mayor Walker is no altruistic "servant of the people." And it definitely states that the dealings of a great number of the city officials have been shady, if not actually dishonest. It...
How much effect this report will have can only be a matter of conjecture, since voters in large cities long ago gave up the idea of rational balloting. If a city managership, such as Cincinnati now has, could be established, a vast improvement would be undoubtedly made. At any rate...
Famed civic museums are the Museo Correr of Venice, the London Museum, the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, the Provincial Museum of Berlin, the Musee Carnavalet of Paris,&3134; oldest of them all. la imitation of these, the Museum of the City of New York was organized in...
The museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity?a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter...