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Define the New Deal? Tammany methods made magnificent.
Five months ago, after it had been revealed that Howard Chandler Christy's official Sesquicentennial poster, We, the People, had been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although...
It is not until the second half of the showing that the plot really unfolds, and gives free play to the intrigues of Ahmed, the petulant beauty of the Princess Kuhachin, and the trusting, almost child-like simplicity of the great Kublai Khan. Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of...
The arrest of Jimmy Hines was more a political than criminal sensation. For Jimmy Hines is one of the most potent district leaders of Tammany. When most of Tammany turned against Franklin Roosevelt, Hines remained faithful, enormously enhancing his stand-in with the New Deal. He now distributes much Federal...
But in 1934, Reform Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia began to break the 17-year rule of Tammany Hall over the city's public schools. One February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His...