Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The principality of Tammany, Government of Manhattan's Democrats, solved the problem of its search for a Prince to succeed the late boss Charles F. Murphy. The Prince Tammany wanted could not be had, and no man who could be had was the Prince Tammany wanted. The solution of...
Tammany was without a chieftain. Charles F. Murphy was dead. Tammany was looking for a new Prince. Tammany chose James A. Foley. Foley was a son-in-law of Murphy- had married the Tammany boss's adopted daughter. He had been in both Houses of the State Legislature of...
Democratic. The ascendant star among Democratic Presidential aspirants, seemed, for the time at least, to be Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. The death of Charles F. Murphy (TIME, May 5), Tammany leader, seemed rather to have improved his chances.
After Mr. Murphy's funeral, while political leaders were still assembled in Manhattan, a conference took place behind locked doors in the Hotel Biltmore. Governor Smith himself, George E. Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois (since the death of Mr. Murphy unquestionably the most in- fluential Democratic boss in the country...
Two days later it was announced that Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1920 Democratic nominee for Vice President, had agreed to head Governor Smith's campaign. The choice of Roosevelt was undoubtedly calculated to strengthen Smith with the public, for his name lends a color of respectability which no purely Tammany candidate...