Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. South, Hoover-Democrat, continued his fight with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. During a speech at Bristol. Va.. he strayed from his main theme. Prohibition, to declare that Negroes employed by Tammany have white stenographers.
George Washington Olvany is the official head of Tammany Hall?the successor of Tweed. Croker, Murphy. He is not as powerful as his predecessors. On matters of importance, he takes orders from Alfred Emanuel Smith, who has shaped Tammany into respectability, though only being one of the Sachems.
George Washington Olvany, with the presidential election looming, was the author of a defense of Tammany Hall, in the November Scribuer's, entitled "The Present-Day Tammany."* Excerpts:
"In the last three generations?since the close of the Civil War?the Democratic party has named eleven men for the presidency. Six of them?Seymour. Greeley, Tilden, Cleveland, Parker, and Smith? were New Yorkers. Three of the six? Seymour, Tilden, and Smith?have been conspicuous members of Tammany Hall...
"In this day and generation it is generally taken for granted in New York that assaults upon and fabrications about Tammany are intended for political capital in other sections of the country, where the present-day Tammany is unknown, and where the traditions of what happened half a century ago...