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Humane boss of the most famed prison in the U.S., Lawes said with proper pride, when asked how his 2,500 inmates felt about his retirement: "Some of them will probably feel bad." Some famous Lawes charges: City Editor Charles E. Chapin, Richard C. Whitney, Nazi Fritz Kuhn, Tammany'...
A man died and a chapter ended last week in U.S. political history. When Roosevelt II marched into power in 1933, marching with him came Tammany politicians, social planners, men of labor, liberals and the conservatives of the old South. Byron Patton Harrison was symbolic of that last, anomalous group...
Nine scholars who had been thinking since a year ago last April about how a Tammany judge canceled the appointment of Bertrand Russell to teach at the College of the City of New York (TIME, April 8, 1940) have finally boiled over. This week they cut loose in an angry...
Patrioteers were outraged nevertheless. Jumping up at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting, an ex-Tammany judge named Alfred J. Talley demanded that New York City parents "stamp out this slimy enemy" and oust members of the Board of Higher Education (which runs the public colleges) for "neglect of duty...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, 44, is a shrewd New York politician who looks like a man-about-town-a very leisurely, prosperous sort of town. Looking at his slick, prematurely grey hair, his invariably dapper dress, or the dapper water colors he paints for relaxation, nobody would think he had ever...