Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone knows something about Cartoonist Nast's great battle with paunchy Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall. Many remember that Abraham Lincoln called him "the North's best recruiting sergeant." Few remember that Thomas Nast, a potent political figure in the U. S. for 35 years, was born in Landau, Palatinate, Germany, in 1840, emigrated at the age of 6, always spoke English with an accent. He always drew. At the age of 15, a small, fat boy, he asked the imposing Frank Leslie for a job. To get rid of him Publisher Leslie told him to draw the holiday crowds...
Nast's battle with Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began his career as nose-punching foreman of the Americus or Big Six Fire Co., was Commissioner of Public Works; Brains Sweeney was the lawyer; Slippery Dick was Comptroller of Public Expenditures; Elegant Oakey was the Ring's social front. Their methods were childishly simple. New York's books were never...
...fluidity in the law. In 1914, month after he was elected to the State Supreme Court, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. He has been there ever since. And although his father was one of the judicial triumvirate behind New York City's William M. ("Boss") Tweed, Judge Cardozo has kept his office aloof from politics...
...Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There was Boss Tweed's fire engine, Americus No. 6, whose dashboard was decorated with the original Tammany Tiger. There were ship models of every carrier that has plowed the harbor from the Half Moon to the Bremen. Brigadier General Clinton De Witt Falls gave a collection of the uniforms...
Other magazines have likewise fallen from popularity because the times have passed them by. In the eighties, "Harper's Weekly" crusaded almost single-handed against the pioneer racketeers of the Tweed Ring and won its fight by the efforts of the cartoonist Thomas Nast. And in the turbulent days of the Roosevelt campaigns, its drawings by Kemble crystallized the opinion of the opposition. But because "Harper's" could not remake its pages in the image of Baron Steiehen or Covarrubias...