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The God of Politics has laid a heavy hand of wrath upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth...
The tears were not for the antics of crooked judges nor for little black boxes. They were for a stupid and doddering leadership that had permitted the enemy to gain the advantage. Tammany is old in the ways of politics. It knows that a "reform" administration will sneak in every...
Thus did swart little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of Greater New York (childless but the parent of a small adopted daughter) describe the economy bill finally passed in his city's behalf last week by the State Legislature, ending a conflict in which a Fusion-Republican Mayor and a...
Evidence against him was flimsy, yet if Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes should go before a Senate investigating committee indirectly to charge Tammany District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain with responsibility for the disappearance of Judge Crater, it would be of more than passing interest. So it was in Paris...
New York, April 20--John F. Curry was deposed tonight as leader of Tammany Hall. The Tammany Executive Committee, in a meeting which lasted an hour and a half, voted 14 1-3 to 10 1-6 in favor of ousting Curry.