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Last week in Manhattan Tammany Hall uncorked some of its long-bottled dislike of New Deal operations in New York State. From potent Tammanyite Daniel Florence Cohalan to State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley went a tart letter inquiring how on earth he justified a third term for Governor Herbert...
The office of taster is venerable in history and cannot be despised by the strutting young scientificos of the present day and age. In ancient states a taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure...
Think of the opportunities for graft in all this. When Tammany comes back into its rightful zamindary, taxes can be raised on all buildings and all land beneath, large districts condemned, appraised at almost zero (on account of the high taxes), paid for at that price, and a low - cost...
Then come endless ramifications. Other capitalists, laboring under huge taxes, will be quite unable to compete with the tax-free Tammany houses, so their properties will sink in value, to be condemned, appraised, bought, exempted from taxes, with politicians taking cuts on the way.
His only adventure in politics up to that time had been his appearance as an Alaskan delegate at the 1920 Democratic convention which nominated James M. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 he appeared in John J. Raskob's waiting room carrying a brief case full of figures, but...