also a term used for a couple living together without being married.
After a time, however, the number of
the session. The corporate interests had learned efficiency.
with the boss.html">boss the price.html">price of peace or of desirable legislation. The
government.html">government.html">government depends upon a machine.html">machine that controls the legislature.html">legislature.
the "easy boss" of the Republicans; and Tammany and its.
says Platt in his Autobiography (1910), "it may be appropriate to
the New York legislature since 1873." He had. For forty years he
and he named the price when his party lost. All that an
and the powers of government were delivered into its lap.
Some of this legislative bargaining was revealed in the insurance.html">insurance
Charles E. Hughes as counsel. Officers of the New York Life
to the Republican campaign of 1904. An item of $235,000,
the hands of a notorious lobbyist at Albany. Three insurance
campaign fund. Boss Platt himself was compelled reluctantly to
dollar bundles of greenbacks from the Equitable Life as
President of the New York Life, said: "I don't care about the
count at all with me. What is best for the New York Life moves
said: "We have large interests in this State; we need police
furnishes and gives, and we have to support these things. Every
it--does these things and we do them." No distinction is made,
"protection" and the machine that sells it!
No episode in recent political history shows better the relations
of invisible government than the impeachment and removal of
elected to the legislature. He served as Speaker in 1893. He.
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