Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned...
Full Measure. Reasons omitted, the Hoover victory loomed as one to which Republicans would be able to point with effective pride for several political generations. Against the most formidable Democrat since Wilson, Hoover had won the most overwhelming majority since Grant smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the...
He sat down among some 700 other anticipants, most of them Tammany politicians but with a sprinkling of the general public. A girl, just "a" girl, had the chair next him. He had never seen her before, did not know her name (Edna Ryder) but he talked with her from...
Evidently a man could be a hero at home so long as he did not leave home. There was, of course, talk that Tammany Hall had "laid down" on the man that tried to outgrow it. But no such talk came from the man. He knew that people think differently...
Tammany. All Democrats admitted that their man's connection with Tammany Hall weakened him nationally.