Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 500 Democratic politicians of Manhattan last week packed into their new Tammany Hall on Union Square. For 90 minutes they milled anxiously through the reception room, the ballrooms, chewing cigars, shaking heads, muttering. Suddenly a door opened at the head of a narrow iron stairway. A man appeared and...
The district leaders of Tammany were glad because John Francis Curry is one of their own kind. He had been elected chief of Tammany over the potent opposition of Alfred Emanuel Smith, between the Tammany district "boys" and whom there is a wide difference, a difference springing from causes which...
When Tammany Leader George Washington Olvany resigned six weeks ago (TIME, March 25),'the bitter difference between Tammany and its greatest son was clearly exposed. Tammany said Smith had "the big head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany...
New York's dapper, smart-cracking Mayor James John Walker, between whom and Mr. Smith little love is left, gave his support to the district leaders. Mr. Curry's election followed. Said Boss Curry: "It's the same old Tammany. ... I have always been opposed to vice...
The Curry leadership pointed positively to Mayor Walker's renomination. At the same time it indicated a mayoral opening for some Manhattan Republican of real stature. The potent, arch-Democrat New York World, carefully styling itself "the independent press," promised to abandon Tammany unless the Republicans, too, played oldtime...