Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Museum of the City of New York, most important civic museum in the U.S., has most elaborately displayed everything from wax figures of Peter Minuit to Boss Tweed's fire engine with the original Tammany tiger, Saint-Gaudens' preliminary study for the Diana of Madison Square Garden.
Paul Moss is a big, grey-haired Jew whom Mayor LaGuardia picked to be New York's Commissioner of Licenses when he turned Tammany out of City Hall three years ago. Since the power to license is the power to reform, Commissioner Moss, who is as notable for his...
As everyone remembers, La Guardia rode into office on a Fusion ticket made up of three factions: the independent Democrats who were more interested in rescuing the city from its financial plight caused by the plunder of the Walker regime and the depression; a large body of voters of Italian...
In view of New York's traditional loyalty to the sachems of Tammany Hall,--a loyalty that is usually as flaming and fierce, though occasionally as fickle, as hot young love,--and especially in view of the cataclysm for Republicanism that occurred last November, it may seem extraordinary that Republicans...
After Jimmy Walker and ineffectual John P. O'Brien, Mayor LaGuardia has given New York City a shrilly articulate but assiduous, conscientious administration. He runs for re-election next fall against Tammany. Since a World's Fair will be held in New York in 1939. Tammany will fight "The Little...