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Last week these wordly-wise politicians, newspapermen, experts, used such emotional terms to describe what was wrong with the people. There had been nothing quite like it in U.S. political history. Many a time in the past newspapers had run a thundering headline over some smaller attack on some smaller...
All honest Philadelphians deplore our political mismanagement of former years, but lay no claims to political machines of the caliber of Tammany Hall and similar organizations of several other U.S. cities. . . .
> An influential Tammany district leader, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, demanded the resignation of Tammany Boss Christopher D. Sullivan, also advised scrapping the name Tammany. Reason: "It has become a load that no one can carry."
Died. William ("Sourdough Bill") Sulzer, 78, only New York Governor ever to be impeached and removed from office; in Manhattan. Son of an 1848 revolutionary who fled from Germany, he was a grocer boy on Manhattan's East Side, studied law, entered politics before he was of voting age...
In its strongest bid for regaining power since the "Little Flower" first became mayor, Tammany has put up as his opponent Brooklyn's District Attorney, William O'Dwyer. Though he has denied official tutelage by the redoubtable Tiger, there can be no doubt that Tammany looks upon him as its...