Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas F. ("Big Tom") Foley, 73. Tammany sachem; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. Next to the late Charles F. Murphy, he has wielded the greatest power in Tammany Hall in the last 15 years.
Clem L. Shaver, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jesse H. Jones, finance expert of the same Committee, George W. Olvany, boss of Tammany, all rushed down to the harbor in Manhattan to say farewell to the French Liner Paris. Aboard were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Davis.
¶ All letters written to the White House are answered?or nearly all. Last week a group of Tammany Democrats offered to pay the President's expenses if he would speak in Manhattan. Their letter was not answered because it was "patently not in good faith."
New York has a Democratic Governor, by name Alfred E. Smith. He is a man of immense popularity in his own state. He is what politicians know as a "vote-getter." Naturally John W. Davis and the Democratic National Organization wanted Smith to run for reelection because it would strengthen...
A crooked Tammany judge. (P. 22.)