Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League...
Gambler Marlow had been a friend of Gambler Arnold Rothstein, whose murder last fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius...
6) Denounced stockmarket gambling. A few days later Bishop Cannon himself was disclosed as a buyer and seller of stocks on margin in Wall Street. While not denying the facts, he loudly complained it was all "a contemptible Tammany trick" to discredit him at the opening of his Virginia campaign...
Bishop Cannon was quick to answer "the statements which have appeared in today's secular newspapers." He wanted it understood, in the first place, that he had been buying securities "on the instalment plan," not gambling. Then he explained that during the last presidential campaign Senator Carter Glass (Va...
Reelected. John R. Yoorhis, 99, New York City Board of Elections president; to be Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, New York City.