Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Smith came home last week. On the day after his 55th birthday he had said goodbye to Albany, given Governor Franklin Roosevelt his blessing, left the capital while a band played "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Then back to Manhattan he came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure...
Re-elected. John R. Voorhis, 99, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; to be president of the board of elections of New York City.
Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren was a slender, mild-mannered, long-nosed man whom Mayor Walker had called to the most difficult post in any city administration f after he had made a good record as Commissioner of Accounts. There was no intimation that he was not doing his honest...
It is only when he really dips into American home life and commences his cultivation of speakeasies, gun-men, petty grafters, ward politicians, and such evidences of a highly civilized federation that he can be said to have achieved the true American kultur. The one existing institution comparable to any...
Subscriber Brandon's impressions are entirely incorrect. Many a Jew, many a Protestant, at least one Agnostic, many a Social Registerite belongs to Tammany, of which Members Horatio Seymour (1868), Samuel J. Tilden (1876) ran for President on the Democratic ticket.-ED.