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Father. "I got married 28 years ago on the sixth of May, and nobody gave me a tumble. If any photographers had been there I'd have stood on my head for them." That was Father Smith talking-joshing with reporters before the stately wedding of his daughter, Catherine...
New York City politicians dropped into the Board of Elections office one morning last week to shake the hand of an old man there presiding. His name was John R. Voorhis; his age, 98. The occasion for congratulations was his 17th anniversary as Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall.
From Lowell Schmalz to Andrew Mellon, the country exalts the Coolidge tradition: and the nomination of the silent and efficient Hoover is no divagation. Before Friday night he had no private life, and what he has since acquired is powerful and touching. In his habits he is not of the...
Most political district leaders give such parties but staunch Tammany Tom Farley's are perhaps the most celebrated in Manhattan. The pre-eminent success of this particular Farley Fête, which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership...
Then a little parched figure arose, on the Senate aisle, hard behind the seat of Democratic-Leader Robinson, whose lieutenant the little man is. It was 74-year-old Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Senator from North Carolina these 27 years, political uncle of Josephus Daniels and William Gibbs McAdoo, unchallenged boss...