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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...
...involved no disgrace, and it was considered beneath a brave's dignity to show jealousy. For two weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom of wife-stealing, and after a general reshuffling of households the stolen wives were usually turned loose, could enter any wigwam save that of a onetime husband. Gray-bull, a chief who gave Ethnologist Lowie much information on ancient Crow ways and legend, had been a savage Galahad in his youth. Deeply loving his wife, he had nevertheless forced her to accompany her kidnapper out of respect for Crow etiquette...
Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for 23 years, he never held a city sinecure which paid less than $6,000, while he developed a profitable insurance brokerage business on the side). He blamed James Aloysius Farley with fomenting revolt against him. "Now, I don't want to make any accusation against President Roosevelt," he continued...