Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, July 4): "The New Deal has sit up labor boards which are executives, legislatures, prosecutors, judges, juries and executioners. It has tried to humble the judiciary and turn Congress into a rubber stamp. If this be liberalism, then King George III, Karl Marx, Mussolini and Boss Tweed were liberals...
...small boy unaware of the ruination around him. Only in his drawings of Chamberlain does Cartoonist Low seem unreservedly angry, and his campaign against the Prime Minister gives promise of belonging with the great performances of its type, the war of Thomas Nast against Boss Tweed, of Homer Davenport against Mark Hanna...
...great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange had a new tribe of lawyers: Milbank, Tweed & Hope...
Howard R. Turner -- Miss Katherine Tweed, Milton...
When Mr. Hearst named him trustee last summer, Mr. Shearn called in the eminently respectable Manhattan law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, finally accepted its advice to scotch wild rumors by making the trusteeship known publicly. And in October, Trustee Shearn set up a supreme council of top-ranking Hearst executives: Thomas J. White, chief of the Hearst organization and liaison man with "The Chief"; Harry M. Bitner, general manager of Hearst newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of Hearst magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire services and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; F. E. Hagelberg...