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Into the office of the District Attorney of New York County last week marched Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, a Tammany boss from his No. 12 shoes to his No. 8 derby hat, to surrender for two grand larceny indictments. Fingerprinted, he wiped off the smudge and genially remarked: "This is...
Onetime Sheriff Culkins was accused of scalping $25.000 in this manner during his term of office. Sheriff Farley admitted that he had taken $6,000 in interest pay ments, was vexed to discover that he had overlooked more. He claimed he was legally entitled to it. Large, black-browed, fat...
Had the Gilbert Stuart Washington been permitted to enter the inner sanctum of that Commission, he would have been amazed. Through a 25 ft. hallway ornamented with portraits of himself and his wife, he would have reached a small cubicular office in which, almost submerged by the litter of trinkets...
Died. John Richard Voorhis, 102, Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society; of old age; in Manhattan. For 58 years he held public office in New York City, beginning as Excise Commissioner. At various times he had been Commissioner of Docks, of Elections, of Public Works, a police justice, State Superintendent...
Tammany & Corruption. In 1929 after Governor Roosevelt had settled down comfortably at Albany a mayoralty campaign was held in New York City. Congressman Fiorello La Guardia. the Republican nominee, charged wholesale Tammany graft and corruption, named one Magistrate Albert Vitale as the borrower of $20,000 from Arnold Rothstein, murdered...