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...York City does not lie in one county but in five: New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx and Richmond (Staten Island). Tammany, the Democratic organization of New York County, used to be in the position of the Mother Country of an empire, controlling as the oldest and largest member the city government to which all were tributary. In 1920 Tammany's territory, Manhattan, was still the biggest member of the empire, had about 40% of the city's registered voters. Today it has only about 25% of the voters. If the five boroughs of the city (coterminous...
...Tammany has one greater difficulty: if it does not dominate the politics of the other boroughs, it will be dominated by them. The Democratic boss of The Bronx is Edward J. Flynn, an oldtime henchman of Jim Farley and onetime Secretary of State in Governor Franklin Roosevelt's State cabinet. He and Boss Kelly of Brooklyn, Boss Sheridan of Queens and Boss Fetherston of Richmond agreed on a ticket. When Tammany met it was split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name...
...ordinance. The veterinarian retorted that it was not an advertisement but a work of art-just as artistic, in his eyes, as a marble nymph or a cast-iron deer. One of Dr. Shapera's neighbors happens to be Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed reptile man of the Bronx Zoo. Dr. Ditmars not only declared Iron Mike to be "as offensive as a cigar-store Indian and as emblematic as the three balls over a pawnbroker's shop," but criticized it as being zoologically inaccurate...
...greenhouse which sunlight kept normally at a temperature of 85°, the plant had stood inert for five years in a box of earth four feet square. Three new leaves appeared but quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant...
When withering and decomposition started, The Bronx botanists cut off parts of the plant which they prepared for a pickling process involving chromic and acetic acid, alcohol, xylol and melted paraffin. The pickled pieces will be sliced .005 millimetres thin with a microtome, stained for study under the microscope. One thing the scientists especially hope to learn is the mechanism of Amorphophallus titamim's titanic stench...