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When turtle-beaked Boss Curry became leader of Manhattan's Democracy five years ago, Tammany was the unchallenged political power in the nation's No. 1 city, a controlling factor in the State. Soon thereafter began a string of monotonous mistakes. Tammany stood by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker long...
John Francis Curry was not the worst leader Tammany Hall ever had since its founding as a patriotic society 145 years ago. But he was afflicted with such stubbornly bad judgment that last week he had the distinction of being the first Tammany boss to be booted out of his...
Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for...
Even after the votes were in, tellers withheld the count 15 min. to give Boss Curry a chance to resign. But over his friends' protests, John Curry chose to become the first Leader voted out of office in Tammany history. Dazed, the old man looked from face to face...
Just who was to be Tammany's new leader, nobody knew. There was talk of a triumvirate or committee of leaders.