Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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2) Wet Democrats (46), mostly from Tammany; and one wet Socialist.
"It shows the Republican leaders, Tammany Hall Congressmen, Philadelphia machine Congressmen, Mellon-Pittsburgh machine Congressmen, Thompson [Chicago] machine Congressmen and Representatives from other great cities do not believe in enforcing the prohibition law. . . ."
For a rainy half hour R. L. McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is...
"It was our people who fixed him. Down in Georgia . . . .we shot more holes in Smith and Tammany than anyone else."*
Died. John ("Jack") Linder, 13, of No. 1340 Third Ave., Manhattan; of pneumonia and delay. A police emergency squad was called to take him from his fourth-floor home to a hospital; the delay was considerable because John Linder weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when...