Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The Tammany campaign, in its closing hours, has sunk from the sidewalks to the sewers* of New York," said Hooverism's chief publicist.
"The fact that the present-day Tammany has advocated election reforms, fought for woman suffrage, enacted the most progressive social-service and public-welfare laws in the world, and that these laws and the Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied...
"In the 142 years of its active existence the Tammany Society, as has been the case with practically every active organization? whether it be political, social, or other, has not been able to keep some scamps from membership. . . ."
Mr. Olvany's most telling argument was a quotation from famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "Tammany is our greatest social-service agency, and it holds its power because it understands sympathetically the needs and trials of the masses. Its leaders visit those who are sick and in distress. . . . Tammany asks...
*The old Tammany has been exposed and exploited by M. R. Werner in a fat book called Tammany Hall. The book contains practically no. facts about Tammany since the World War.