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But the difficulty of this task caused the appointment of public-spirited William Church Osborn to head the new organization. Distinguished lawyer-Democrat, in 1918 he ran against Alfred E. Smith in the gubernatorial primary and was so impressed by his defeat that he became one of Governor Smith'...
There is not much advantage in talking about what fools we are to boast about our glorious American civilization, democracy, heritage, and so forth and to allow at the same time the bedrock of all this civilization, democracy, heritage, and so forth to be pulverized. There is more advantage in...
*So diligently had Tammany workers striven to bolster up the O'Brien ballot during the election, with an eye to strengthening his 193,3 chances, that last week 44 New York City polls officials were indicted for filing false returns.
In Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week was held a Tammany Hall Victory Dinner to celebrate last November's electoral success in city, State and nation. On hand and still talking earnestly about economy was Tammany's own John Patrick O'Brien, stop-gap Mayor of...
The Board of Estimate pledged a $40,000,000 budget cut-half in salaries, half in other expenses-to bankers who had helped the city out of a hole. After the salary cut had been made, Mayor O'Brien began to muse aloud to the Press to the effect...