Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yet both the swearing-in and the scything were last week termed methods of self-exploitation. Elbowing through a roomful of Tammany leaders at the 14th St. Wigwam, Nelson P. Cook, a little, old, white-haired neighbor of Calvin Coolidge during the President's Vermont days, told Tarn-many Leader...
Olvany on Woollen. To Mr. Olvany last week came also Evans Woollen, potent Indianapolis banker, last fortnight (TIME, May 16) advanced as Democratic Indiana's presidential choice. It was suggested that Mr. Woollen came to see Mr. Olvany concerning the Tammany attitude toward his boom. Said Mr. Olvany: "I found...
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled...
What newspaper reader aged 5 to 75 can name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain...
After long social work, Robert Fulton Cutting, now 74, knows that the public must be bludgeoned into any unwonted activity; and he can bludgeon. At the beginning of this century, when Theodore Roosevelt was being hornswoggled out of New York politics into the obscurity of the U. S. Vice Presidency...