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Married. Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter...
But Mr. Chase could not say so much for the Federal Government. "The great force of the Federal Government at Washington through its Postal laws has practically broken down." So the Watch and Ward Society must force the government to realize that "Tammany judges do not represent the whole country...
In 1925 John F. Hylan sat in the Mayor's chair?Hylan, onetime motorman on the L, which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom...
1) The Administration is Tammany through and through?not the old Tammany which gained such a bad name, nor the pseudo-Tammany of Hylan?but the "new Tammany" of Al Smith, Olvany and natty Jimmy Walker.
What was considered one of the Mayor's best appointments was the naming of George V. McLaughlin as Police Commissioner. Mr. McLaughlin had been Superintendent of State banks. He is not a Tammany man, has held office under both Republicans and Democrats. A six-foot, 207-lb., muscular man, his...