POLITICAL NOTES: Man We All Love

In Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week was held a Tammany Hall Victory Dinner to celebrate last November's electoral success in city, State and nation. On hand and still talking earnestly about economy was Tammany's own John Patrick O'Brien, stop-gap Mayor of New York.* To the tune of "In Old Shanty Town," 1.200 diners serenaded Boss John Francis Curry thus:

So here's to John Curry, The Chief of the Clan; We won't have to worry

While he's our head man. All his loyalty fine In our hearts we enshrine.

He's the life of the, party That...

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