Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The woman who was Vice Chairman of the Democratic Convention, Miss May Kennedy, was not one of Mrs. Davis's intimates; she was a little worker who had gone into the Bronx and brought out votes for Tammany. During the same period, Mrs. Davis was on a committee which...
A woman politician was reported as remarking: "Mr. Davis is a diplomat. Nothing in the whole political problem facing him will need more skill than the handling of his sensitive women constituents, his friends and his wife's friends on the one hand, Tammany Hall and its numerous voters...
The new boss of Tammany, therefore, is Judge George Washington Olvany. He succeeds the late "Commissioner" Charles F. Murphy (TIME, May 5).
After a committee of seven Tammany leaders had considered in private for an hour, the Executive Committee of the entire organization ratified the subcommittee's choice of Judge Olvany. The vote was 22⅔ to ⅓. The one-third vote was cast by two leaders of a single district...
A committee of seven was empowered to rule until July 15. The rule, it is said, will be in the interests of the Presidential candidacy of Governor Al Smith. Besides, it will place inimical cartoonists at a disadvantage; they could otherwise display Candidate Smith as a puppet on the string...