Word: wigwam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help from an organization called "government" might have regimented the people, sapped their vigor, and paved the way for Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule because good government has ceased to mean merely a balanced budget wrapped up in sterile slogans about initiative and self reliance...
...inquiry, last fortnight he suddenly subpoenaed some 400 scared Marinelli heelers to appear before the grand jury. At this point a public hearing like that which trapped hapless Mayor Jimmy Walker began to seem to Tammany chieftains a worse prospect than giving Mr. Dewey a second scalp from their wigwam. Last week Boss Marinelli wrote Governor Lehman two letters. In one he resigned the office he would have held for only 28 days more. In the other he explained why. Most compelling of Mr. Marinelli's reasons was that he wanted to spare "suffering and humiliation'' that...
Chief Croker took his wife to Florida for their honeymoon. Years earlier he had bought two miles of Palm Beach waterfront, built the first house in Palm Beach, an immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left Palm Beach, spent most of their time in County Dublin. In 1922. while the children of his first marriage were trying desperately to have him declared mentally unfit. ex-Boss Croker died...
...York. Mrs. Croker soon developed a passion for litigation, before long was involved in an incredibly complicated tangle of lawsuits. Under the hands of lawyers the vast estate-during Florida boom years the waterfront property was valued at $10,000,000-withered. Pressed for cash, she mortgaged the prodigious Wigwam as well as her Irish castle...
...sued her agents, her attorneys, her creditors. She was sued by auctioneers for fees, by State governments for taxes, by her single-minded stepchildren for a share in the vanishing estate. Month ago she filed a petition for bankruptcy. Last fortnight 780 ft. of her waterfront property and the Wigwam, once an impressive exhibit crammed with Indian bric-a-brac, now a tumbled ruin, were auctioned off to Crown Corp. for $252,000, none of which will end in the hands of Mrs. Croker. A remaining 9,500 ft. of Palm Beach waterfront will be sold next month. Last week...