Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into Manhattan's Mecca Temple last week crowded several thousand New York City Republicans to pick a party candidate for Mayor. There was only one avowed candidate-Congressman Fiorella H. La Guardia-after Congresswoman Ruth Pratt had withdrawn because she would not "scramble for votes." So, as Hobson'...
In 1829 Andrew Jackson was U. S. President. All good people were worried about the rise of Mormonism. Manhattan Island had streets as far uptown as Fourteenth. New York elected its first mayor by popular vote. Frances Wright, "that bold blasphemer and voluptuous preacher of licentiousness" stirred audiences with her...
Last week John Richard Voorhis, president of the New York City Board of Elections, Grand Sachem of the Society of St. Tammany, celebrated his 100th birthday. It was a three-day festival, including a boat trip around Manhattan, dinners, speeches galore. A Democrat since he voted for Franklin Pierce in...
Birthday. John R. Voorhis, Grand Sachem of Tammany rfall, president of the Municipal Board of Elections; in Manhattan. Age: 100 (see p. 14).
Originated as a patriotic order, the Society of Tammany in Manhattan makes a great to-do over Independence Day. On that day last week the city's Democratic politicians crowded into their hall to hear New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt call for a new "Declaration of...