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Frank A. Munsey, Publisher: "At a Manhattan dinner which I attended, together with Editor Swope of The New York World, conversation and speeches agitated the idea of getting the G. O. P. convention for New York in 1928. It was urged by many who heard of this dinner that the...
After a committee of seven Tammany leaders had considered in private for an hour, the Executive Committee of the entire organization ratified the subcommittee's choice of Judge Olvany. The vote was 22⅔ to ⅓. The one-third vote was cast by two leaders of a single district...
Judge Olvany was born on Pike St., lower Manhattan, the son of a bricklayer. Thus he began in the Tammany tradition. He graduated from New York University Law School (not quite traditional) and became a lawyer. For 26 years he has belonged to Tammany. Six months ago Governor Smith made...
Before Olvany there were five bosses of Tammany. Previously Tammany had been what it still calls itself, a "Society." The first of the bosses made himself Dictator. After him the others were Emperors pure and simple. Their careers and characteristics were well summarized by Samuel McCoy:
On the Baltic (White Star)−Marc Klaw, theatrical producer; L. V. Bright, President of the Lawyers' Title & Trust Co.; Frederick Whelan, principal lecturer for the League of Nations Union; Mrs. Bula Edmundsen Croker, widow of the late chieftain of Tammany Hall.