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The House of Morgan last week pulled the Hall of Tammany out of a bad financial hole. It was a rescue of civic necessity, not political love.
Tammany's political strength derives in large measure from oversized municipal payrolls, fat public contracts, personal relief for the faithful. Slim, slick little Mayor James John Walker, whose salary is $40,000, refused to economize. In 1929 the municipal budget was $520,000,000; in 1931, $605,000,000...
When he arrived at Albany, instead of maintaining a discreet and maidenly silence, Senator Roosevelt immediately began bucking Tammany Boss Charles Murphy's machine on the election to the U. S. Senate of William ("Blue-Eyed Billy") Sheehan, leader of Buffalo's Democracy. For weeks New York's legislative affairs...
Voters will be told that he is the very soul of courage and honesty?and that he cowers before the Tammany tiger. His friends will extol him as one of the most competent and successful administrators New York has ever had?and his critics will insist he has been only...
How much effect this report will have can only be a matter of conjecture, since voters in large cities long ago gave up the idea of rational balloting. If a city managership, such as Cincinnati now has, could be established, a vast improvement would be undoubtedly made. At any rate...