Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan Tammany Hall uncorked some of its long-bottled dislike of New Deal operations in New York State. From potent Tammanyite Daniel Florence Cohalan to State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley went a tart letter inquiring how on earth he justified a third term for Governor Herbert...
(3 of 3) Jr., 42-year-old Brooklynite and American Legionary; Senator Robert Wagner; Morris S. Tremaine, five-time State Comptroller; and Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thacher II, who gave Herbert Lehman a fight for the 1932 nomination with Tammany's ardent backing. In Albany Governor Lehman...
The office of taster is venerable in history and cannot be despised by the strutting young scientificos of the present day and age. In ancient states a taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure...
Think of the opportunities for graft in all this. When Tammany comes back into its rightful zamindary, taxes can be raised on all buildings and all land beneath, large districts condemned, appraised at almost zero (on account of the high taxes), paid for at that price, and a low - cost...
Then come endless ramifications. Other capitalists, laboring under huge taxes, will be quite unable to compete with the tax-free Tammany houses, so their properties will sink in value, to be condemned, appraised, bought, exempted from taxes, with politicians taking cuts on the way.