Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good citizens were startled by Diamond's criminal record. In 16 years he had been arrested 22 times. His career began at the age of 17 in Brooklyn when he was sent to the reformatory for burglary. Five times he was hailed into court on charges of homicide only...
Keystone of the national Democratic structure is the party's organization in New York State. Line of cleavage of the State organization is between Tammany Hall, the New York City organization, and a more elevated element at present headed by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For months the local Republicans...
Governor Roosevelt ordered the current Ewald investigation only after much hesitation. He then instructed the Republican Attorney General to limit his special grand jury to the case in hand. Fortnight ago the jury, ignoring this restriction, sought to delve into rumors of a large-scale job-buying system in Tammany...
At the opening last week Mrs. Harriman gravely explained to reporters that she had been collecting French moderns for years, that her house had become so crowded that she must either stop buying pictures or rent more rooms to hang them. Hence the Marie Harriman Gallery. Art critics, dodging nervously...
Last fortnight the family asked police aid. New York thus learned that in addition to judges indicted, judges deposed, judges sentenced to gaol, it now had a judge "lost." Immediately the Press linked Judge Crater's vanishment to New York's current political suitfest-the network of scandal...