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Word: tammanyizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 51 Fifth Ave. | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Re-elected. John R. Voorhis, 99, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; to be president of the board of elections of New York City.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Room 349 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINCEREST FLATTERY | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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