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Up in Central Park is a 1948 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes and Vincent Price.Based on the play Up in Central Park by Herbert Fields with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, the film is about a newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man who help expose political corruption in New York City in the 1870s.
In John Varley's 1977 science-fiction novel, The Ophiuchi Hotline, a crooked politician in a 27th-century human settlement on the Moon assumes the name "Boss Tweed" in emulation of the 19th-century politician, and names his lunar headquarters "Tammany Hall". [61] [62] [63] Tweed was played by Philip Bosco in the 1986 TV movie Liberty. [64]
1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
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Boss Tweed: The corrupt head of Tammany Hall. William A. Carson: The editor of the New York Evening Graphic. Angus Kelly: Angus is the owner of a secondhand shop who is forced to pay the Bowery Greens ten dollars a week. He gave Kyle the old green lantern. He has his throat slit by Alan Scott.
Boss Tweed: William A. Seiter: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein: The Invisible Man: Charles Barton: Uncredited voice Rogues' Regiment: Mark Van Ratten Robert Florey: The Three Musketeers: Richelieu: George Sidney: 1949 The Bribe: Carwood Robert Z. Leonard: Bagdad: Pasha Ali Nadim Charles Lamont: 1950 The Baron of Arizona: James Reavis ...
William "Boss" Tweed was a local politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1860s. After being arrested for bilking the city out of millions of dollars, Tweed jumped bail and was later apprehended in Spain.
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