Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New York, April 20--John F. Curry was deposed tonight as leader of Tammany Hall. The Tammany Executive Committee, in a meeting which lasted an hour and a half, voted 14 1-3 to 10 1-6 in favor of ousting Curry.
For Mr. Roosevelt that cruise among friends on a fine yacht was to be as thoroughgoing a vacation as any modern U. S. President has dared to take with Congress in session. Not one political adviser accompanied him. For company he had his fishing cronies, practically the same group who...
But Vincent Astor was, in his way, as socially progressive as the young upstate legislator from Hyde Park who was fighting Tammany at Albany. He gave-and still gives-boating excursions up the Hudson to poor women & children. He even ventured far enough into politics to hold down a desk...
Thus ended Kansas City's hope of a municipal New Deal, as represented by the Citizens-Fusion ticket put forth by the National Youth Movement. Founded a year ago by a small group of young, public-spirited citizens, the National Youth Movement aimed to depose the Pendergast machine as...
Little Tammany is not so little. Founded in 1898 by the late Jim Pendergast, oldtime saloonkeeper, its control stretches from the Governor at Jefferson City to the policeman on the corner. Jim Pendergast's memory is kept green by a bronze statue with cherubs at his feet, commemorating his...