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Second to none is the Port of New York, whose city-owned piers are leased to shipping lines from the four corners of the earth. As in many another municipal transaction, Tammany Hall manages to get a crooked finger into dock-leasing. Last week New Yorkers learned why travelers must...
(2 of 2) service, that he did not make a nickel out of the deal. His intercession, he tried to make Counsel Seabury believe, was only in the interest of international goodwill. Lawyer Hickin refused to waive immunity, would not tell to what Tammany man he passed on $45.000 shortly...
1. Former leader of Tammany, under investigation by the New York legislative committee.
In 1924 Alfred Emanuel Smith wanted to wash behind Tammany's ears, make it presentable so that it would not embarrass him when he took it before a National Democratic Convention to secure for himself the presidential nomination. George Washington Olvany, a judge of General, Sessions Court, was the...
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.