Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses came out, too, with some unpleasantries. He was vague about the "red hot stuff" he had sent to Zeb Vance Walser. First he said he had sent out "so much material" he really could not recall which was which. Then he said it might have been anti-Tammany...
"If Mr. Raskob's ethical sense is so fine and his general sensibilities so readily aroused, it might be worth while to ask how it happens that he has my mail. Did he himself rifle the mails or did some of his Tammany stool-pigeons do it for him...
* This innuendo seemed to have reference to recent sewer-pipe scandals in the Borough of Queens (TIME, Oct. 29). If so, it was either an ill-informed or a knavish innuendo. The Queens sewer-pipe grafting was effected by a Democratic ring to which Tammany was opposed, and which Governor...
1) Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the late Great Commoner. She has her father's face and something of his frame. Modern conditions required her to substitute practical thinking for the passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at...
2) Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her...