Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York City's glib, pinchbeck little Mayor, had to appear in court last week. He was not on trial personally, just a witness. Yet he was on trial politically because the case was that of a city magistrate charged with buying his position from Tammany...
More famed, perhaps more fatal was Wolf Lamar's ability to impersonate over the telephone. Once he imitated Tammany's late Dan Riordan.
Sachem John F. Curry of Manhattan's Tammany Society of the Columbian Order LL.D.
However, such individualism as Mr. Whalen's in a Tammany (which means team-play, or machine-play) administration was unusual in New York. Even amid the cheers, newsgatherers scented friction, suggested the dapper mayor was jealous of his Commissioner's sartorial perfection, of his triumphant publicity, his possible eligibility for...
Born: on a Jones County, N. C. plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The...