Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bank of New York had a monopoly on Manhattan banking until the branch of the Bank of the United States was established in 1791. Its first private competitor originated with a bright young man who had just begun to realize the possibilities of a new organization known as Tammany Society...
The gruesome story comes into clearer light when Miss Taggart, supervisor of nurses and Tammany election captain confesses that each year a large number of people from the Home register and vote illegally. Tammany is only incidentally sadistic; as over, the fundamental motive is the aggrandizement of the Hall, a...
(See front cover) Prime and permanent solution for unemployment, in Washington's eyes, is NRA. Principal threat to that solution is that employers will not hire more men at higher wages. Last week General Johnson was busy with industry trying to work that threat out of the recovery picture...
¶ President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress asking that the principal of Home Owners' Loan Bonds be guaranteed just as Farm Mortgage Bonds were guaranteed two months ago: 2) ordered the Census Bureau to tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis...
It is a little uncomfortable to reflect that we do not know the Administration's answer to any of these questions. We have only hints, fragmentary, and contradicting suggestions of the answer which the Administration will finally give to each of them. And we are not assisted in our task...