Sublime

Jim Hill wasted little time, after gaining full control of the Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba, in sending Farley packing. Hill showed little sensitivity to the old man’s ego, to his greed, or to his clear ability to retaliate. When Farley confronted Hill in the spring of 1879 with the impossible demand that he be made a director of the new c

Smith was not only a politician; he was a Tammany politician. In the simple Tammany code, the first commandment was Loyalty. Smith’s loyalty to his appointees was legendary. Once he gave a man a job, he was fond of saying, he never interfered with him unless he proved himself incapable of handling it.

Arrivé sans le sou à Philadelphie à l’âge de dix-sept ans, il a fait fortune dans l’imprimerie ; il a su divertir le bon peuple de Pennsylvanie par ses petits essais cocasses et édifiants, il a su faire les délices, à Versailles, de la cour de Louis XVI ; il a démontré la nature électrique de la foudre et inventé le paratonnerre ; il a contribué à