Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In New York City last week somewhat less than 850,000 registered voters-less than half the number who are expected to elect a mayor in November-went to the polls and for the second time in four-years, administered a drubbing to Tammany. In doing so they accomplished what...
3 in 2. The curious results in the primary were made possible by a curious device to which Tammany resorted. With the Democratic organizations in four of the city's five boroughs (Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond) in revolt, Tammany, controlling only Manhattan, foresaw the difficulty of nominating...
Last month Manhattan's Tammany Hall was down in the dumps. Its official mayoralty candidate, Royal Samuel Copeland, the personal & private selection of Tammany Chieftain James J. Dooling, was by no means acceptable to many an old-line Tammany leader. Worse still, Tammany had been let down by the...
Last week Tammany Hall was down in the dumps again. First off, Christy Sullivan, instead of doing what he was expected to do, announced that Senator Copeland was still his nominee to ride Tammany's Tiger. Then Grover Whalen withdrew, not in the interests of unity, but to make...
"I confess I am not the best available man," wrote resigning Mr. Whalen with exemplary modesty. ". . . Judge Mahoney is far better equipped." That new Candidate Jeremiah Titus Mahoney was better equipped, many a politician was inclined to agree. Onetime athlete (in 1897 he won New York City's all...