Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Mr. Darrow must have pleased worried Monday morning newspaper editors yesterday, his effect on Mr. Johnson's digestion was evidently not quite so satisfactory. His attack on the NRA can satisfy neither its most prominent critics nor its most prominent supporters. In short it has more or less the...
When turtle-beaked Boss Curry became leader of Manhattan's Democracy five years ago, Tammany was the unchallenged political power in the nation's No. 1 city, a controlling factor in the State. Soon thereafter began a string of monotonous mistakes. Tammany stood by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker long...
Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for...
Even after the votes were in, tellers withheld the count 15 min. to give Boss Curry a chance to resign. But over his friends' protests, John Curry chose to become the first Leader voted out of office in Tammany history. Dazed, the old man looked from face to face...
Just who was to be Tammany's new leader, nobody knew. There was talk of a triumvirate or committee of leaders.