Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preacher. Up to the microphones broad-shouldered, coatless, clutching a Bible in his left hand, stepped the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, claimant to the leadership of 6,000,000 Share-Our-Wealthers left him by the late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against...
Franklin Roosevelt got his political start fighting New York City's Tammany Hall, was bitterly opposed by it before and during the Democratic Convention of 1932. As the 1936 campaign approached, how- ever, and the New Deal's need of all the support it could get in New...
Of all the Scripps-Howard chain, the World-Telegram's metropolitan performance is almost exclusively a Roy Howard show. Singlehanded in 1931 he carried through the negotiations by which the failing Brothers Pulitzer's Worlds were merged for $3,000,000 (plus $2,000,000 future profits) with...
On the World-Telegram's editorial page one day last week appeared an open indictment of President Roosevelt for squaring "personal political obligations by saddling the Federal Bench with unknowns" nominated by Tammany and The Bronx's Boss Edward J. Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having...
The theme song of the Spanish-American War, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, lent itself naturally to the 1904 campaign of Theodore Roosevelt, but eight years later, for his Bull Moose campaign at "Armageddon," his marching song was Onward Christian Soldiers. In the intervening campaign, won by...