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  • Tweed, William Marcy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...later. See D. T. Lynch, " Boss " Tweed (1927, repr. 1974...S. J. Mandelbaum, Boss Tweeds New York (1965); A. B. Callow, The Tweed Ring (1966); L. Hershkowitz, Tweeds New York: A Closer Look (1977); K. D. Ackerman, Boss Tweed (2005...
     
  • New York , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...reputation in 1871 for prosecuting the Tweed Ring of New York City, headed by William Marcy "Boss" Tweed , but Tammany soon recovered much of its...organization. The Republican party also had bosses, notably Roscoe Conkling and Thomas Collier...
     
  • Field, David Dudley
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...constitutional issues. He was also counsel for Jay Gould and James Fisk in the Erie RR litigation in 1869 and later defended "Boss" Tweed . However, it was his work in behalf of law reform rather than his famous practice that established Fields legal reputation...
     
  • Cartoon
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...public opinion was amply demonstrated in the elections of 1871 and 1873, when the power of Tammany Hall was broken and Boss Tweed imprisoned largely through the efforts of Thomas Nast and his cartoons for Harpers Weekly. In 1922 the first Pulitzer...
     
  • Gould, Jay
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Vanderbilt for control of this road and manipulated its stocks in his own interest and that of his group, including "Boss" Tweed . The Gould-Fisk scheme to corner gold in 1869 caused the Black Friday panic. Public protest forced the Gould group...
     

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