Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Mahoney's blast against Tammany Hall comes at a time when such attacks may be more practical effect then the crusades of colorful preachers and columnists. The movement to reform the Democratic organization of New York Country has the twofold advantage of a capable leader and a new environment...
Tammany's erstwhile strength lay in its ability to furnish services which the government, inhibited by the folklore of the times, could not provide. An organization called "Tammany" could help the poor by giving food-baskets, clothing, coal and jobs, when such help from an organization called "government" might have...
This great social change, when combined with the moral indignation against graft now communicated to the poorer classes formerly dependent on Tammany, provides a powerful lever for the uprooting of an institution that has become a symbol "for all that is crooked, slimy, unpatriotic, and sinister in politics in any...
To other New Yorkers, their first experiment with "P. R." seemed last week a little puzzling. In the first dragging days of the count, official action had to be taken against soldiering on the part of the 1,778 counters and officials whose salaries, ranging from $10 to $30 a...
Despite the fact that he had been one of the defeated candidates himself, P. R.'s "father," public-spirited Chemist William Jay Schieffelin, and such P. R. enthusiasts as Liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst remained stubbornly faithful to their device. They pointed out that with experienced counters Cincinnati had cut...