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...black boxes. They were for a stupid and doddering leadership that had permitted the enemy to gain the advantage. Tammany is old in the ways of politics. It knows that a "reform" administration will sneak in every now and then, at intervals like business cycles, every time that the Wigwam relaxes its vigilance and permits its sentries to nod. It knows too that with an aging and incompetent leader dismissed, with a younger and more hard-boiled man in charge, the Happy Hunting Ground will be open again, with its little black boxes and its fat franchises, just as soon...
...first chilly winds of Autumn whipped around the Tammany wigwam early this September the Sachems within huddled about the fire and speculated gloomily on the prospects for the winter. It looked bad. There was no doubt that Chief Mammoth-jaw O'Brien was not the man the tribe had thought. The magic of his thunder-bearing oratory was losing force, and his latest attempts at balancing the budget had revealed a dismaying lack of biceptual muscle, as well as nearly causing a village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide...
...keep the State judiciary out of politics New York Democrats and Republicans have a habit of endorsing each other's reputable candidates for the bench. Last week mousey little John Francis Curry. Tammany's boss, summoned his followers to the Wigwam to prepare a Supreme Court slate for the Manhattan-Bronx district. First nominated was Aron Steuer. 33-year-old son of Max Steuer, slick crook-defender and smart Tammany tactician. Then up rose John McNaboe, a Demo-cratic State Senator who had fought tooth & nail against the investigation of Tammany scandals by the legislative committee of which...
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...