Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The reasons are two: 1) Mrs. Hearst is popular ? much more so than her husband ? with certain Tammany politicians; 2) Mr. Hearst and his press are likely, out of fealty to Mrs. Hearst, to treat kindly any Democratic ticket which includes the publisher's wife. The death of...
But why choose Mrs. Hearst? Because she is the easiest way of win ning the Hearst press without swallowing William Randolph Hearst himself. He has often stepped on the toes of Tammany chieftains. He stands against the League of Nations and " Wilsonism." Mrs. Hearst, on the other hand, has stepped...
Among the distinguished medical men on the program were Friedrich Wenckebach, Viennese heart specialist; F. G. Banting, of insulin fame; E. V. McCollum, vitamin expert of Johns Hopkins; A. B. Luckhardt, Chicago physiologist; Walter Timme, neuroendocrinologist of New York; Fred H. Albee, surgeon. The business of the Association was transacted...
" There is a Tammany Hall in this country in the drink trade which is as highly organized as the Tammany Hall in America. We are back in the condition that prevailed in 1916, when the national energy was seriously impaired by drink ! '
Parallels are not hard to find with Theodore Roosevelt,* whose neice he married. Both went to Harvard, to Albany, to the Navy Department on the eve of war, and both were shuttled into vice presidential candidates. Franklin is as good a Democrat as Theodore was a Republican. He fought Tammany...