Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite society as few Tammanyites are privileged to do. When in 1932 he sent a check for $50 to Tammany's campaign chest, Tammany returned it to him as "too cheap." Last year he ran for election to the Court of General Sessions on Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion ticket but Tammany managed to beat...
...socially progressive as the young upstate legislator from Hyde Park who was fighting Tammany at Albany. He gave-and still gives-boating excursions up the Hudson to poor women & children. He even ventured far enough into politics to hold down a desk in New York City's Fusion campaign headquarters when John Purroy Mitchel successfully ran for mayor in 1913. But he soon discovered that he had no flair for politics. He married Helen Dinsmore Huntington-a member of another county family-and settled down to his real estate business...
Such was last week's score in Kansas City's municipal election. When blackjacks were pocketed and votes were counted, Kansas Citizens knew the worst: The Fusion attempt to break the rule of Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast's Democratic machine had failed. Re-elected by a 59,566 plurality was Boss-backed Mayor Bryce Byram Smith, a mild-mannered baking company official in his spare time. Defeated was Dr. Albert Ross Hill, 64, anti-Boss Democrat, onetime (1908-20) president of the University of Missouri, holder of a dozen college degrees and author...
Thus ended Kansas City's hope of a municipal New Deal, as represented by the Citizens-Fusion ticket put forth by the National Youth Movement. Founded a year ago by a small group of young, public-spirited citizens, the National Youth Movement aimed to depose the Pendergast machine as Tammany had been deposed in New York and the Vare machine in Philadelphia...
Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums...