Tweed Ring
Tweed Ring see Tweed, William Marcy .
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TWEED COURTHOUSE CONTROVERSIAL, AGAIN
News Wire article from: United Press International; 9/6/2001; 700+ words
; ...Press International 09-06-2001 Tweed Courthouse controversial, again...restoration of the 123-year-old Tweed Courthouse in New York City is...built by Democratic Party boss William Marcy Tweed. Back then, the courthouse was...
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In Honor of Tweed, the Soul of Modern New York
Transcript from: NPR The Bryant Park Project; 4/3/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...03-2008 In Honor of Tweed, the Soul of Modern New...host: It is National Tweed Day. Thousands - OK...putting on their finest tweed coats and raising their...to be the birthday of William Marcy Tweed, a.k.a. Boss...
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 "Courier News (Elgin, IL)")
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Newspaper article from: Courier News (Elgin, IL); 12/4/2006; 346 words
; ...replace the assassinated George Moscone. In 1875, William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political...Contra affair. In 1991, Patricia Bowman testified at William Kennedy Smith's trial in West Palm Beach, Fla...
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Save the cartoonist.(newspaper editorial cartoonists)
Magazine article from: The Masthead; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...1870s, Tammany Hall political boss William Marcy Tweed had most of New York City's influential...Weekly dared challenge "Boss" Tweed in print. Harper's Weekly cartoonist...helped turn public sentiment against Tweed by chronicling his abuses in a...
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Publish and be damned.(BEHIND THE LINES)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...campaigned vociferously against William Marcy Tweed, the corrupt leader or 'boss...former New York State Senator, Tweed and his Irish Catholic associates...Bridge could not proceed until Tweed had got a seat on the construction...
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 "La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, WI)")
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OPINION: No middle ground with cartoons.
Newspaper article from: La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, WI); 3/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...against the local political boss, William Marcy Tweed, who ran a Democratic political...the corruption and control of the Tweed Ring, Harper's Weekly and The...Weekly by Thomas Nast that got Tweed the most upset. In one famous...
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 "Herald News, The (Joliet, IL)")
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Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 12/4/2005; 531 words
; ...Tavern in New York. 1816: James Monroe of Virginia was elected the fifth president of the United States. 1875: William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country...
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Letters
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Osman Streater London NW3 Tweed or Weed? From Mr Conrad...Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed'. Almost from its founding...of New York City, and William Marcy Tweed was a Democrat from...with Abraham Lincoln and William Seward, one of the founders...
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Elliza Greatorex and old New York, 1869.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Side, which was targeted by the Tweed Ring for the construction of a...windings. To pay for it, Boss Tweed levied assessments on the property...Weekly to bring the actions of William Marcy Tweed (1823-1878) to the attention...
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Group honors cartoonist Nast
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/1/1986; 537 words
; ...corrupt New York political boss William Marcy Tweed and oust from power his Tammany Hall cronies. Tweed once remarked that he did not...political cartoons regularly. Tweed, who Nast often portrayed as a...
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William Marcy Tweed
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Marcy Tweed William Marcy Tweed (1823-1878) was an American politician and leader of Tammany Hall. The Tweed ring, which defrauded New York City of millions, made his name a symbol of civic corruption. William Tweed was born in New...
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Boss Tweed Trials: 1873
Book article from: Great American Trials
Boss Tweed Trials: 1873 Defendant: William Marcy Tweed Crimes Charged: 55 criminal offenses relating to...administration. Descended from hard-working Scottish immigrants, William Marcy Tweed was born in 1823 in New York City. He was a brawling...
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Tweed Ring
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
TWEED RING TWEED RING. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, William Marcy Tweed, New York State senator and Democratic Party boss, along with his political associates, robbed the New York City treasury of at least $30 million, and perhaps far...
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William Collins Whitney
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Collins Whitney 1841-1904, American...fight that brought about the downfall of William Marcy Tweed and the election (1874) of Samuel J...he refused to support the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan. He was a society leader...
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Evarts, William Maxwell
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL William Maxwell Evarts served as...material." — William M. Evarts Evarts then returned...political machine led by the "Tweed Ring." The ring was named after William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, the New...
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