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The Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria (Manhattan) was dressed one night this week with smilax, gladiolas, palms and fine napery, as it is almost nightly for conventions of furriers, bankers and the like. Guests were a national collection of Republicans assembled by the New York political club of that...
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.--George Weinberg, star witness in the conspiracy trial of Tammany leader James J. Hines in New York today shot and killed himself in his home here, according to White Plains police.
Two of the San Remo's tenants are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bijur, who pay $5,000 a year for nine rooms. Mrs. Bijur, thirtyish and blonde, is a great-granddaughter of the William Mooney (no relation to California's Tom Mooney) who founded Manhattan's Tammany...
To the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, New York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens...
Died. Walter Costello Kelly, 65, famed vaudeville actor ("The Virginia Judge"), brother of Dramatist George Kelly and Philadelphia Democratic Boss John B. Kelly; of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile; in Philadelphia. A machinist by trade, "Judge" Kelly got his start when oldtime Tammany Leader "Big Tim...