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The lobby gows in the late Sol Bloom's 20th district on Manhattan's West Side put on their derbies last week and paid angry calls on Tammany Chieftain Hugo Rogers. Sol Bloom's district was good Democratic territory, and they had several deserving Tammany candidates for...
Addressing himself to the "colonial rabble before me in this far-flung corner of the earth," be-whiskered George William Pattison, a veteran of the British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system...
The Wild Plot. Then the pros-Bill O'Dwyer and Tammany Hall-looked Clen up & down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer...
This week Bill O'Dwyer and the rest of the pros handed the case over to the grand jury. Tapper Ryan, who surrendered after 48 hours, was indicted. Rich Man Ryan was questioned by the grand jury. Nobody had actually accused the chubby amateur of anything. They had just...
Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25...