Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the Senate office building, Mayor Walker rapped with his cane on the door of a fellow Tammany-man, Senator Wagner. After cheers and handshaking, the party rode to the Capitol on the "subway" (a small, electric, underground train connecting the Senators' offices with their clubroom).
A man who is still young, tireless, and immensely capable--a man who has been loaded down with religious prejudice, the wet issue, and the fragrant memories of Tammany Hall and yet manages to remain politically available despite these handicaps, each one of which is theoretically sufficient to destroy him...
Mr. Reed. The thinly-populated Southwest echoed all week with the slow, formidable voice of Candidate Reed. Partly to overshadow Candidate Smith, partly to get credit for a party service, partly because he revels in smoldering oratory, Candidate Reed stuck close to his stock speech on G. O. P. "boodlers...
At Atlanta, Ga., contrary to his custom, Mayor Walker arrived six hours ahead of schedule. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr., golfer-lawyer, and Major John Sanford Cohen, editor of the Atlanta Journal, went to the station to arouse the Mayor from his green-pajama sleep. He visited the Confederate memorial...
Mr. Smith. The second Col. Theodore Roosevelt lately toured the Midwest, minus his dinnercoat, frothing with expletives, trying to discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning...