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For Mr. Roosevelt that cruise among friends on a fine yacht was to be as thoroughgoing a vacation as any modern U. S. President has dared to take with Congress in session. Not one political adviser accompanied him. For company he had his fishing cronies, practically the same group who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Friends | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

But Vincent Astor was, in his way, as socially progressive as the young upstate legislator from Hyde Park who was fighting Tammany at Albany. He gave-and still gives-boating excursions up the Hudson to poor women & children. He even ventured far enough into politics to hold down a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Friends | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Thus ended Kansas City's hope of a municipal New Deal, as represented by the Citizens-Fusion ticket put forth by the National Youth Movement. Founded a year ago by a small group of young, public-spirited citizens, the National Youth Movement aimed to depose the Pendergast machine as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Little Tammany | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Little Tammany is not so little. Founded in 1898 by the late Jim Pendergast, oldtime saloonkeeper, its control stretches from the Governor at Jefferson City to the policeman on the corner. Jim Pendergast's memory is kept green by a bronze statue with cherubs at his feet, commemorating his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Little Tammany | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

In his drive on fire traps, Commissioner Post recently swore he would compel all landlords, many of whom cannot pay taxes, to make their properties safe and sanitary. Vincent Astor countered with an offer to sell his slum holdings for their assessed value ($800,000). Other large slum owners like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tenements | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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