Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carl Schurz Vrooman, of Bloomington, Ill. (hometown of the Pantagraph), an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in both Wilson administrations, a farmer's friend. Reason: Tammany. ("It double-crossed Wilson, Cox and Davis.")
One chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton...
No Southern Democratic paper ever flayed Tammany as thoroughly as the Republican Chicago Tribune last week flayed the head of the Republican campaign in Chicago. It said:
Charles F. Murphy, boss of New York (Tammany), died April 25, 1924.
George Washington Olvany, under the careful guidance of Governor Smith, has succeeded Tammany Boss Murphy. Frank Hague is in power in New Jersey.