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On the evening of Oct. 29, 1919 one of Tammany's brightest young men made a speech in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. The subject of the speech was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who at that time packed so much punch in New York City politics that Tammany had kowtowed to him...
Thus began one of the most famed feuds in the Democratic Party. In 1922 Governor Smith flatly refused Tammany's request to let Mr. Hearst run for U. S. Senator on the same ticket with him. In 1925 Governor Smith helped James John ("Jimmy") Walker take the mayoralty of New...
In Manhattan, Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, surveyed with scorn the sorry plight of Tammany Hall, gave the following advice:
"Tammany Hall needs another Murphy, and won't be strong again until it gets someone like that. A political machine has got to have a boss. It can't be run by a board of directors, even if you give them Indian names. You've got to...
A graduate of Professor Baker's noted school of the drama at Yale, Sklar became well known when one of his early plays, written in collaboration with Albert Maltz, was banned in New York during the Tammany administration because of its expository nature.