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• Today in Business History - December 4 | Utah Pulse

5 December 2008, by unknown 1875: William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country. 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, ...

• Apparently, Plaxico Burress Isn't a BigLaw Firm in Merger Talks ...

4 December 2008, by unknown (Orthogonally: the Sullivan act was originally an artifact of Tammany Hall, passed to make it easy to for "Big Tim" Sullivan to make sure that he and his bodyguards were armed, their political opponents both unarmed, and easy to frame ...

• On This Day, 12-4-2008: Black Panther Party « The Trail

4 December 2008, by unknown 1875 - William Marcy Tweed, the “Boss” of New York City’s Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S.. 1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. ...

• The buck stops over there somewhere - San Antonio Current

4 December 2008, by

• EARLY BIRD: Highlights in history . . . and a thought for the day ...

4 December 2008, by unknown In 1875, William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson left Washington on a trip to France to attend the Versailles ...

• Today in History - Dec. 4 - The Associated Press

4 December 2008, by

• Move to End Theater Ticket Speculation

2 December 2008, by Move to End Theater Ticket Speculation By William S. Niederkorn Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1908 A New York City ordinance against speculation in theater tickets was passed by the Aldermen yesterday and sent to the Mayor for signature. The ordinance will rescind all “sidewalk” speculators’ licenses and require “the printing of the price of the ticket upon the face of the ticket, the prohibition of the sale of such tickets elsewhere than in the box office of the theatre to which they gave admission,

• Politicking doesn’t save Texas in BCS standings - NewsOK.com

1 December 2008, by

• Jacob Adler Arrested; Vaudeville Ban Sought

1 December 2008, by Jacob Adler Arrested; Vaudeville Ban Sought By William S. Niederkorn Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1908 Two brief articles depict an ongoing effort to stop theatrical performances on Sunday. One tells of the arrest of the Yiddish theater legend Jacob P. Adler “along with his leading man, his manager, ticket seller, and ticket taker” on charges that they presented a performance of a dramatic work on Sunday at the Grand Street Theatre. “Abraham Levy, attorney for Adler and his men, said that no evidence

• Arts week for Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate

30 November 2008, by

• Letter: Just more of the same - Topeka Capital Journal

29 November 2008, by

• Wholesale and Retail: the Timelessness of Bailouts and Corporate Thievery

28 November 2008, by JF Ptak Science Books LLC   Post 399 The largely-heroic Thomas Nast has proved--unfortunately--that his visual social commentary is timeless.  For example, this iconic 1871  image of the wholesale theft and corruption of U.S. treasury and government funds by William "Boss" Tweed and his Tammany Hall conspirators versus the swift retribution to the retail theft of the destitute man trying to provide food for his starving family can still be run today on editorial pages--except of course that n

• Taft's Campaign Finances Dwarfed Bryan's

24 November 2008, by Taft’s Campaign Finances Dwarfed Bryan’s By William S. Niederkorn Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1908 The Republican presidential campaign of William Howard Taft received donations of $1,655,518.27, compared with $620,644.77 for the Democratic presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan. The number of contributors is also starkly divergent: 12,330 for the Republicans and 74,000 for the Democrats. The article says: “A majority of the Democratic campaign contributions consisted of amounts from $1 to

• [한글자막 Mad Men 1x09 Shoot]

24 November 2008, by [한글자막] Mad Men 1x09 Shoot 드라마 혹은 영화/Mad Men 2008/11/24 09:49 by Shain 이번 에피소드에서 중심은 모델 베티입니다. 1879년에 이미 입센의 희곡 '인형의 집'이 출간되었음에도 불구하고 자신의 가능성을 모두 가두어 둔 채 가정주부로 살아가는 베티. 그녀의 밝은 얼굴을 볼 수 있었던 에피입니다. 드라마 곳곳에 비둘기, 새가 날아가는 장면이 있는데 외국 블로그 중엔 Betty의 애칭이 종종 버디로 불리는 것과 작은 새를 뜻하는 Birdie라는 단어가 연관이 있을 것이란 그런 평도 종종 있습니다. 날지 못하는 작은 새라는 그런 의미인 거죠. 베티가 관련된 장면엔 새가 자주 등장하는 편이긴 합니다. Mad.Men.s01e09.dsr.xvid-notv.smi[한글자막] Mad Men 1x09 Shoot 이번 에피소드로 돈과 베티가 어쩌다 만난 것인지 베티의 아빠는 왜 돈을 싫어하는 건지 그 사연을 일부 짐작하

• BLOOMBERG IS A MAYOR RUN AMOK - New York Post

22 November 2008, by

• Invictus Music Festival @ Tammany Hall, Clubs & Venues, Worcester ...

22 November 2008, by info@sonicbids.com Tammany Hall has been named Worcester’s Favorite Live Music Club by Worcester Magazine for the last three years running! It is the oldest continuously operated club in Worcester, MA, and has a capacit.

• We wonder why - Victorville Daily Press

21 November 2008, by

• 20 Believed Dead in Brooklyn Gas Explosion

21 November 2008, by 20 Believed Dead in Brooklyn Gas Explosion By William S. Niederkorn Saturday, Nov. 21, 1908 It is feared that twenty or more people, including laborers and local residents, were killed in a gas explosion and a huge cave-in yesterday morning at the site of a sewer trench under construction “in Gold Street, between York and Front Streets, in Brooklyn.” Five hundred rescue workers were on the scene today, but there was nothing they could do to reach the victims until tenement buildings, “whic

• Some St. Tammany schools banned talk of Obama's election; many parents outraged

20 November 2008, by Source: (b)The Times-Picayune(/b) Some St. Tammany schools banned talk of Obama's election; many parents outraged by Kia Hall Hayes, The Times-Picayune Thursday November 20, 2008, 7:00 AM Crowded into the multipurpose room at Mandeville Elementary School on the morning of Nov. 5, the ...

• Cleveland's Death Rattle - Cleveland Leader

19 November 2008, by

• Roosevelt Hosts Selective 'Labor Dinner'

18 November 2008, by Roosevelt Hosts Selective ‘Labor Dinner’ By William S. Niederkorn Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt gave a “labor dinner” at the White House last night, but the more important labor leaders were conspicuously absent. Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, and “other labor leaders who worked hard for Bryan during the campaign” were not invited, and three federation members who were invited “declined to come.” With less than four months remaini

• Toscanini, Destinn, Caruso in 'Aïda'

17 November 2008, by Toscanini, Destinn, Caruso in ‘Aïda’ By William S. Niederkorn Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1908 The Metropolitan Opera opened its 24th season with “Aïda” under its new conductor, Arturo Toscanini, and with strong performances by Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso. Toscanini “is a strenuous force, a dominating power, a man of potent authority, a musician of infinite resourcefulness. … In fortissimos the brass could not blow loudly enough for him, nor could the crescendos be brought to climax fulminating e

• Madisonville elementary to be named for first St. Tammany ... - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

15 November 2008, by

• In Pakistan, A CIA-Picked Setup, Almost!

14 November 2008, by The real and wider U.S. game against Pakistan, for which the Feb. 18 elections were engineered and a regime change was brought about can be best summarized in the following eight axes of operations U.S./CIA wants Islamabad to work on: Full support to U.S. on war on terror, justify the IMF plan by deliberately mismanaging [...]

• Mae West: Joseph V. McKee

13 November 2008, by When New York City's Mayor Jimmy Walker went out-of-town briefly, he left Joseph V. McKee in charge — — and his deputy's first act was to have three actresses arrested on 9 February 1927 and the third Broadway headliner was MAE WEST. • • The raid and arrest in 1927 are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West."• • Since the month of November focuses on voting and going to the polls — — here's how we remember "Holy Joe" on 7 November 1933, when he was casting his ballot for himself on Morris Av

• Mae West: Joseph V. McKee

13 November 2008, by When New York City's Mayor Jimmy Walker went out-of-town briefly, he left Joseph V. McKee in charge — — and his deputy's first act was to have three actresses arrested on 9 February 1927 and the third Broadway headliner was MAE WEST. • • The raid and arrest in 1927 are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West."• • Since the month of November focuses on voting and going to the polls — — here's how we remember "Holy Joe" on 7 November 1933, when he was casting his ballot for himself on Morris Av

• News Copy, New York: Tammany Hall in New York's Most Affluent ...

11 November 2008, by Bob Fois The Mid-Hudson News had the following headline: Chief advisor to Westchester legislature chairman charged with theft of services WHITE PLAINS – The former chief advisor to the chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators ...

• George Washington Plunkitt's principles of honest graft' from ... - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com

9 November 2008, by

• President-Elect Taft Sets Tone for Business

6 November 2008, by President-Elect Taft Sets Tone for Business By William S. Niederkorn Friday, Nov. 6, 1908 President-elect William Howard Taft sounded “the keynote of prosperity for the country for the next four years” in a speech to his fellow members of the Cincinnati Commercial Club yesterday. He said: “Every business man who is obeying the law may go ahead with all the energy in his possession … but all interests within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government may expect a rigid enforcement of the la

• LibriVox » Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks ...

4 November 2008, by unknown Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. by George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924). “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.”, George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There’s honest graft and dishonest graft according to Plunkitt. ...