Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the political sham-battle now raging on Beacon Hill, where hardly a single candidate can be found who combines honesty with great ability, the current mayoralty campaign in New York City sees for the first time in a generation the forces of corruption arrayed in a clean-cut warfare...
Chief Croker took his wife to Florida for their honeymoon. Years earlier he had bought two miles of Palm Beach waterfront, built the first house in Palm Beach, an immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left...
Released to first-run houses all over the U. S. fortnight ago, Vol. 4 No. 2 had been doing a big business for two weeks, but last week it made news ot a different sort in New York City. New York is currently in the throes of a mayoral election...
Candidate LaGuardia thought the M. O. T.'s treatment of his life & times was "all right." Impartial observers thought it was a masterly if unconscious campaign document. Tammany did not go on record with any sentiments, but after the film had played a week to 150,000 people at...
Because of general clamor aroused by the picture, it appeared for a time that only the M. 0. T.'s principal second-run New York house, the Embassy News-Reel Theatre, would exhibit the LaGuardia biography before November 2, date of the election. But by week's end...