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When William Marcy Tweed bossed Tammany Hall and New York City, political livelihoods were made by out-&-out peculation. Boss Charles Francis Murphy brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. But fashions in municipal graft change. Nowadays Tammany feeds largely on the real estate and building businesses. How...
Among the first retorts to Editor Harris had been that of Columbia's Head Coach Lou Little, who, having lately broken a vertebra, watches his team from a swivel chair: "If most student affairs were run as cleanly as football, there'd be little to worry about. I...
New York citizens, in spite of a year-long muckraking inquiry into the city government, which is Tammany Hall, swept the Hall into complete municipal control once more. The Democratic State organization had hoped to elect a majority to the Assembly and thereby emasculate the Legislature's investigation of New...
So thoroughly did New York City voice its confidence in Tammany, however, that for the first time in Tammany history there was but one Republican returned to the Board of Aldermen ? Joseph Clark Baldwin III, young, earnest and rich. Usually there are at least four or five G. 0...
The reforestation amendment was car ried by an ample majority over the Smith objections. Interpreters rushed forward to claim this result as a personal triumph for Governor Roosevelt over Mr. Smith. "Oh, get out!" joshed the Governor at this suggestion. Small though the refores tation issue was, however, it did...