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Tammany politicians, ousted Jan. 1 from civic power, last week sat down in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore to a meal which in other years they proudly called a ''victory dinner." Two incidents made the affair front-page news:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cries and Music | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

¶ Among the 1,000 guests at the President's Supreme Court reception was cherubic old John H. McCooey, Tammany ally and longtime Democratic boss of Brooklyn. If he thought that his invitation was a peace overture from the White House instead of a routine bid due him as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shock & Surprise | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

To straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lehman v. LaGuardia | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Light is thrown on numerous controversies which the undergraduates of today are and the Ph.D.'s of the 1950's will be wrangling about. The President is pictured as a strong, subtle, versatile genius, "the first American with any practical chance of reaching the Presidency to grasp the essentials of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

Throughout the volume, the bankers are in for the castigation which one would expect of an administration sympathizer. An amazing comparison, of the investigation of the House of Morgan with an investigation of Tammany enlivens the book. Similar characteristics are observed in the following pairs; J. P. Morgan and John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

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