Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Pelletier out of the race, the Boston mayoralty contest has narrowed down to a duel between John R. Murphy and James M. Curley; notwithstanding the fact that there are two others in the field, O'Connor and Baxter. The Curley-Coakley combination is to Boston what Tammany is to...
The New York newspapers that opposed Tammany are now accounting for its recent victory on the ground that amateurs, in politics as well as sports, can not survive a clash with professionals. This seems a rather unconvincing explanation of the failure of the Coalition party. It does not necessarily require...
The reelection of Mayor Hylan in New York fulfills the expected. Why New York prefers to be governed unintelligently and extravagantly, why it consents to be made by its chief magistrate ridiculous before the rest of the country, why it submits with regularity to the manipulation of such an organization...
It appears, therefore, that the much vaunted power of the press is not as almighty as we have been led to suppose. The aggregate circulation of the ten journals which did their best to drive out Tammany far exceeds that of the Hearst papers. But it would seem, on regarding...
If one compares the editorials of the "Journal" during the past two weeks, with those in the "Evening Post", for example, one finds that the former states clearly and specifically the several issues upon which it recommends Hylan; but that the latter utters only rambling, incoherent appeals for better government...