Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Servants of the people are not happy unless they serve. To stand and wait is not their forte. Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That. Tammany Hall has no power to supply such...
Appeared at the hearing many artistic friends of the sculptor, equally convinced of his rationality and "artistic magnificence." Among these was Arthur Lee, Norwegian-born sculptor who recently contended in Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's competition for the Pioneer Woman and whose torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan...
Mrs. Bula Benton Edmondson Croker,* second wife and widow of Tammany Chief Richard Croker, lost the famed Croker-McDonald suit involving the sale of 10,000 feet of Palm Beach ocean frontage. Mrs. Croker had sought to break a nine-year-old option that gave J. B. McDonald, Palm Beach...
To all of which Tammany Democrats retorted: "What of it? He's a jolly good fellow." Quipped Mayor Walker: "If General Harbord believes all the things he said, why didn't he run for Mayor?"
No Russian is Joseph P. Day, famed auctioneer, present friend of the Manhattan Democratic organization. It was Mr. Day who bought the Tammany Hall property on 14th Street, who then sold it to the New York Edison Co., and who then turned the profits of the deal over to the...