Boss Tweed

A New York City political leader, known as Boss Tweed, who in the late 1860s ran a network of corrupt city officials called the Tweed Ring.

Tweed, William Marcy 2002

I'm not quite Boss Tweed yet, who allegedly downed about 150 oysters in one sitting, but, I'm slowly getting there.

Claire Thomas: Oysters on the Half Shell Claire Thomas 2011

Writer Pete Hamill , for instance, requested a grave near the remains of Boss Tweed.

Ponying Up for Forever Anne Kadet 2012

He is the beep, a man who could use some physical activity on New York's bike lanes and whose body and face were made for cartoonists of the Boss Tweed era at Tammany Hall.

Joel Epstein: The Bike Lane Battle of the Bulge Joel Epstein 2011

Nast is credited as being instrumental with the downfall of Tammany Hall leader Boss Tweed, who reportedly issued a bribe to try and stop the cartoonist.

Cartoonist Draws Ire of N.J. Irish Heather Haddon 2011

He is the beep, a man who could use some physical activity on New York's bike lanes and whose body and face were made for cartoonists of the Boss Tweed era at Tammany Hall.

Joel Epstein: The Bike Lane Battle of the Bulge Joel Epstein 2011

I'm not quite Boss Tweed yet, who allegedly downed about 150 oysters in one sitting, but, I'm slowly getting there.

Claire Thomas: Oysters on the Half Shell Claire Thomas 2011

There is Boss Tweed, the corrupt Tammany tiger, and his henchmen, who built Harlem castles in the 1870s with the kickbacks and outright thievery that so inflamed the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011

After the remote cartoon that now constitutes the image of Boss Tweed, Daley's name is probably the most synonymous with the urban political machine, the most tangible idea of what to expect of the person who runs it.

John R. Bohrer: Cory Booker Is 41 Years Old 2010

After the remote cartoon that now constitutes the image of Boss Tweed, Daley's name is probably the most synonymous with the urban political machine, the most tangible idea of what to expect of the person who runs it.

John R. Bohrer: Cory Booker Is 41 Years Old 2010