Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But in 1934, Reform Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia began to break the 17-year rule of Tammany Hall over the city's public schools. One February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His...
Judge Jarecki was still in charge of county election officers, and when vote counters finished their work last week, it showed that Messrs. Kelly & Nash had for the first time been roundly defeated-508,000-to-466,000-on their home ground. Net significance was a possibility that when Mr...
BRANDY FOR HEROES-Jack Kofoed-Button ($3). Picturesque biography, in the beery-teared Gene Fowler tradition, of a forgotten fighting Irishman of Manhattan's roaring '60s, one John Morrissey, who rose from a brothel bouncer to underworld boss to heavyweight champion to Tammany State senator, founded Saratoga Springs...
7. The Manhattan Democratic organization which was badly beaten in the last New York City elections is (1 the Hibernians, 2 Union League, 3 Liberty League, 4 Jeffersonian Lodge, 5 Tammany).
But like the A.F. of L. Tammany will fight on. As Thurman Arnold points out: "Institutions once formed have the persistence of all living things. ... Even when their utility both to the public and their own members has disappeared, they still survive." Tammany still bivouacs some of its cohorts in...