Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To cry out against such evils, a quarter of a million Negroes must rely on an extraordinarily feeble collection of politicians of their own race. Tammany runs Harlem politically, parcels out a few appointive jobs to Negroes. In the district are one Negro police lieutenant, a Negro acting school superintendent...
A Chinese in Manhattan who wants to start a laundry does what a Manhattan Irishman used to do when he wanted to open a saloon. The would-be saloonkeeper, in the old days, went first to Tammany Hall for political permission. The aspiring laundryman today trots around to No. 16...
Now married to a doctor, Mrs. Ayer has two children by a previous marriage to a Tammany politician named McDougald. Son Cornelius is in Fordham Law School. Daughter Elizabeth, graduated from Hunter College, is doing social service work. With them she has traveled over most" of the U. S. and...
Procrastination is all that can be expected from the Phillips Brooks House committee supposed to report on better lunch accomodations for commuters. Both commuters and Phillips Brooks men profess to be impatient with present overcrowding, and yet Tammany aldermen could be no slower to reduce their salaries than this committee...
If Actress Bankhead had wanted to thank someone for "Daddy's" elevation to the No. 2 position in the Democratic House organization, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania would have been the man. Last month Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush...