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Tammany Tales
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of...
He further fancied himself as impresario, sank millions in grand opera (conveniently in the same flamboyant building with his Erie offices); and millions more for French farce and Shakespeare at the "Boudoir Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three...
Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned...
Governor-elect Roosevelt wisely avoided public discussion of the future, specific and inevitable though it seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the...