Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additions to Hooverism included: Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Oklahoma Democrat, onetime (1907-25) U. S.Senator. Reason: Tammany (see p. n). Dr. D. E. Mitchell, Tennessee Democrat, onetime President of Cumberland University. Reason: Prohibition, "economic policies." Francis S. Guthrie, Pittsburgh Democrat. Reasons: foreign and economic policies. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall, Maine...
It was a warm week in New York State. At the end of it, Nominee Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends...
Votes (1907, 1910, 1911, 1915) to legalize Sunday baseball. A vote (1909) against Sunday theatre performances. A vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point...
...felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned if I'll stand for the Tammanyizing of the Government of the United States!" Nominee Smith took the news calmly. Bolter Owen used to have, and might again have, a large following. "Naturally, I am sorry," said Nominee Smith. ... "... My greatest regret comes from one of the reasons advanced, because it compels me to question his sincerity...
From Texas, Banker Traylor moved to St. Louis, then to Chicago. He brought a thorough knowledge of battling banking, a Texan wife (Dorothy Arnold Yerby), a distaste for liquor and a profound belief in the principles of the Democratic party. Last month, he surprised Chicago and surprised himself by going...