Word: wigwam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Olvany's law firm-Olvany, Eisner & Donnelly-during the years that its senior member couched in the big leather chair at the Tammany Wigwam, was particularly successful in pleading cases before the Board of Standards & Appeals. The Board rules on building and zoning laws...
...heard that he may be nominated for Mayor in 1933 on a Fusion ticket. He has heard that he might even go to Albany to replace Governor Roosevelt, who is dreaming of the White House. But for the present, from an Elizabethan window Samuel Seabury spies on the Tammany Wigwam. Behind the Wigwam he sees a woodpile. In the woodpile, he feels sure there is many a corrupt Tammany Indian. Last week it was expected he would ask Governor Roosevelt to call a special session of the Legislature to help him drag the rascals...
Boss Curry. The present leader of Tammany Hall (and hence New York City's Boss) is 57-year-old, blue-eyed, thin-thatched little John Francis Curry. He is a shrewd pinochle-player, but by no means the most potent leader the Wigwam ever had. He is a lifelong resident of the "San Juan Hill Section" (middle West Side). His election to Tammany's leadership in 1929 was hotly contested by the East Side, whence came Alfred dEmanuel Smith. Like most New York bosses, Mr. Curry is of Irish descent and distinguished himself by early physical prowess, in his case...