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Clerk. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury unearthed, while delving into New York City scandals, that Deputy City Clerk James J. McCormick, Tammany figure, had illegally collected $69,000 in tips from couples he married at the City Hall in 1929-30. Clerk McCormick encountered real trouble only when the U. S. Attorney...
Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting...
The other great New York brewer was and is Jacob Ruppert. His Grandfather Franz had a brewery in Manhattan in 1850; his father, the elder Jake, learned brewing from the time he was ten and started a separate brewery of his own. The younger Jake was also brought up in...
Once again it seems likely that New York will have a reform candidate in the lists against Vice, Corruption, and Tammany. This time it will be exmayor Joseph McKee opposing the present mayor, John F. O'Brien. The former is the white hope of the city liberals, but to an...
Much of the enthusiasm for McKee arose last year when he replaced Walker after the latter's resignation. Like a slightly bulbous fairly god-mother, he brandished the wand of reform over startled New Yorkers. His first economy measures took the city by surprise; though it was obvious to many...