Word: spitework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City civic associations rose up and roared against Secretary Ickes and President Roosevelt. The city's newspapers made out an airtight case of political spitework by the New Deal against last year's Republican nominee for Governor. Mr. Moses refused to resign either of his jobs. Instead he revealed that as early as last February, and twice since, Secretary Ickes had asked New York's Mayor LaGuardia to remove him from the Bridge Authority as unfriendly to the New Deal. Put on the defensive, Secretary Ickes barked: "When I issue an order...
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