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The history of New York City politics is as bumptious and cynical a saga as a combination of Damon Runyon, Ernest Hemingway, and Thorne Smith could concoct. Now that "The Little Flower" and "Reform" reign supreme, that saga of the Men of Tammany is fast becoming a glowing legend, another...
Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff deserve honorary memberships in Tammany Hall for their superb performances. Preston Sturgis, author and director, ranks with Judge Seabury as a tiger-killer. But perhaps it would be better to say that while the good judge did the actual killing, Mr. Sturgis has written a...
In 1929 Mayor James John Walker of New York City, blithe, debonair, and Tammany's greatest vote-getter, swamped his Republican rival by 500,000 votes. The rival was Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. In 1932 Governor Franklin Roosevelt held hearings on Mayor Walker's conduct of his office, during...
Bronx Boy. Irish Catholic Ed Flynn was born, reared, schooled (at Fordham University) in New York City's teeming Borough of The Bronx. He is a graduate cum laude of the seamy school of politics. But no seams show on Edward J. Flynn. At 48 he is trimly built...
Pope's Shadow. New Dealers were inclined last week to shrug away these straws. They pointed out that unlike Al Smith, Franklin Roosevelt is no Roman Catholic. But, although fiery crosses crackling on lonely hilltops, and red-faced spellbinders warning that the Pope was on his way to the...