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Word: tammanyizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Recently the Mayor of the greatest city in America visited Europe and was honorably received on his tour everywhere by all except the diplomatic representatives of his own country. Our Ambassador to France . . . was represented by one Sheldon Whitehouse, who promptly put detectives on his [the Mayor's] trail to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

The largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Chicago | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

New York voted heavily against amending its constitution to give its Governor a four-year term with elections in presidential years. Governor Smith led the Democratic fight against this amendment.*. . . Republicans gained four Assembly seats. . . . Democrats pushed through a $300,000,000 state bond issue for building Manhattan subways. . . . Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Off-Year Elections | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Colonel Roosevelt led a typical attack on Tammany graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER-HUNTING SON | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

No, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against the Tiger of Tammany and the ghost of Tweed incarnate in Governor Smith was not only untrue, it was political blunder of the worst kind. It is better for the opposition not to meet Smith face to face but rather to direct Fabian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER-HUNTING SON | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

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