Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart.
A yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case...
New York City. Tammany's Mayor James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931...
Tammany. "After all, Tammany Hall for a century has been the dominating political party in the city of New York. . . . Had I accepted advice, I would not have spoken in Tammany Hall just one week after my nomination for the Presidency. But I had my strongest inclination to speak in...
On Nov. 5 the people of New York City will elect a mayor. Outstanding issue in the campaign has been the year-old Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24) with accompanying charges of laxity and corruption in the present Tammany administration, headed by re-election-seeking Mayor James John Walker...