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Last week in Albany Governor Roosevelt was presented with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative...
The country at large waited to see how Governor Roosevelt would deal with Tammany, of which the natty little New York Mayor is the popular symbol. If he removed him from office, he might lose New York State in the Presidential election. If he did not. Republicans would charge him...
Moses on Tammany. Tammany Hall began as a patriotic order to celebrate Independence Day. Presidents Cleveland and Wilson used to send it public telegrams on that date. This year Governor Roosevelt sent it a routine message of greeting. Senator George Higgins Moses blurted: "July 4, 1776 was the day when...
Banked tightly in their rows and boxes in the teeming hothouse of Chicago Stadium last week, flooded with artificial light, seething and waving in a slow chaos of mob emotions, the Democracy presented a spectacle not unlike the steaming jungle of man's origin. Predominant were the lowest of political...
When not playing Presidential politics, Mr. Farley is chairman of the New York State Boxing Commission. In him is something of the blatant tenacity of the prize ring. Yet as he sat alone at the Congress Hotel he was defeated by forces beyond his control. The Smith faction, captained by...