When he lost the backing of Tammany Hall, Wood formed his own powerful political organization, Mozart Hall.
She was later inducted into the organization's Hall of Honor.
Titled "Outlook 2010: The State of American Business," Chamber president Tom Donohue gave the keynote speech in the organization's "Hall of Flags" room -- a space that was constructed with funds from insurance giant, American International Group, Inc., among others.
"Jazz became the world's music long ago," said Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, in that organization's General Assembly hall on Monday night.
Grand sachem of the powerful Tammany Hall organization that reigned over New York politics, Boss Tweed had a stranglehold on the Democratic Party and much of city and state government in New York.
"This thing has been going on for 43 years, and this is the first time I was ever invited?" Ms. Midler joked as she accepted the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, which the organization behind the hall of fame bestows on a performer each year.
Cleveland's defiance of political corruption won him popular acclaim, and the enmity of the influential Tammany Hall organization in New York City.
Identification of key issues on which the majority of the movement seems to have agreement should be followed by organization of town hall meetings.
"There's several Negro Mason organizations, but Prince Hall is the biggest, and I've been a member since 1906.
Although it would be appointed by the mayor, federal rules require that the board be composed mainly of people from the private sector or organizations outside City Hall, including executives from business, labor and education.
Ruling with majoritarian fervor, and without regard for popular dissent, its leaders spent much of their time in office transplanting the edifice of their organization into the halls of official power — bypassing the many who'd demanded a fresh start, and transparency, for Egypt's government.
