Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For the first time since the War, Tammany Hall faces a long lean winter of political starvation, not of four months but of four years. Ridiculed by civic organizations, proved corrupt by a righteous investigator, beaten at the polls by a fiery little Italian-American Major, the Tammany sachems have...
Thus Tammany took all it could and went out into the cold.
¶ Also in Washington on the same day was Tammany's badly trounced Boss John F. Curry, visiting his son, an undergraduate at Georgetown University; but no White House invitation got he. On the contrary, the President appointed to the politically potent post of collector of internal revenue in...
Two and one-half years ago, when the Scripps-Howard Telegram bought the New York World, Publisher Roy Wilson Howard hitched his wagon to a vanishing star. He said he wanted the World-Telegram to be what the World had been under the late great Joseph Pulitzer: New York'...
Scripps-Howard's high command was scarcely to be blamed for regarding Fusion's victory as their own. Certainly the World-Telegram had done more to help LaGuardia than any other New York paper. Its interest in the election had started when Publisher Howard inaugurated the "Write In...