Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is difficult to understand how the Vare machine has gotten away with so much graft regularly for many years and remained unexposed. City machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on...
¶ In New York was found the biggest surprise of the election. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican Wet, heretofore regarded almost as much of a New York institution as Governor Smith, came down to the Bronx with a plurality of 250,000. There he met onetime Justice Robert F...
*The political pow-wow on the night before election to "bring out the vote," with ts sputtering red fires and Roman candles, its brass bands, its raucous boys beating garbage cans, its stout old men parading with signs hitched crazily to curtain rods, was once a fundamental U. S. institution...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, thrice-elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator...
Of course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs...