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...president, Learned Hand '93; two vice-president, David Cheever '97, and Harrison Tweed '07; and a secretary-treasurer, Clark, govern the Association. The board of Directors consists of 15 men, six apopinted from the faculty and larger Harvard Clubs, and nine elected by postal ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Front Room of Wadsworth House Being Remodeled for New Alumni Club Room | 12/13/1935 | See Source »

...brown tweed suit marked Charter House about 38 size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE FURNISH LIST OF FIFTY STOLEN ARTICLES | 5/4/1935 | See Source »

...possibility of Huey Long in the White House. Last week Senator Robinson, who gets riled by him, described him as a Red. Communists call him a Fascist. In truth he is just about as much of a Red, just about as much of a Fascist, as the late Boss Tweed-no more and no less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Share-the-Wealth Wave | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

DESTINY'S MAN-T. F. Tweed-Farrar & Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fuzzy Future | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fuzzy Future | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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