Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The tread of a steamroller is broad and crushing. The tread of a tiger is soft, delicate but just as sure as a steamroller. It was while the Dry Democrats were nervously guarding themselves against a steamrollering from the Wet Democrats at Houston, that the representatives of Tammany Hall sidestepped...
They sat up late in the Tammany headquarters, arguing it now this way and now that, with Boss Olvaney and other Tammanyites as polite judges. But there was only one "logical" candidate and eventually all were agreed. They could not have Senator Barkley of Kentucky because he had made speeches...
Bosses. Leading the Brown Derby parade is Tammany's George Washington Olvany, suave, cocoa-drinking successor to Murphy, Croker and Tweed. No tyro in politics, Boss Olvany knows that Tammany is Democracy's unwanted child. Orders have gone out to the lesser Tigers (Ahearns, Sullivans, Hoeys, Flynns, Bradys...
In any case, the Vare-Mellon episode and the publicity it received were unfortunate for Hooverism. One cartoonist portrayed Boss Vare boosting the Beaver Man up a tree to get the Presidential apple. On the seat of the Beaver Man's white trousers appeared the dirty print of a...
With the first great wave of immigration, a century ago, the gangster appeared in Manhattan's congested "Five Points" and "Paradise Square," near the Tombs of today. Collect Pond was draining so poorly into the canal that is now a street, that respectable citizens left the swamps to low...