Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As the first chilly winds of Autumn whipped around the Tammany wigwam early this September the Sachems within huddled about the fire and speculated gloomily on the prospects for the winter. It looked bad. There was no doubt that Chief Mammoth-jaw O'Brien was not the man the tribe...
One morning last week President Richard Whitney* of the New York Stock Exchange, Vice President Charles G. Taylor Jr. of Metropolitan Life (world's biggest), President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (world's biggest), Joseph P. Day, if not the world's biggest, easily the world...
New York City was having its own private financial row. Not so famed as Chicago for financial difficulties, New York, able by law to borrow up to 10% of assessed value of city property, has managed over the course of years to pile up a per capita debt of $206.74...
"Booo!" roared the brokers. The Mayor, mustering a smile, leaned forward and looked far down the street, waving blithely to marchers who had not yet come in sight. For 18 minutes until the last of the brokerage army had passed, the booing continued. In the rear of the reviewing stand...
Most brokers regarded proposals for moving the New York Stock Exchange to New Jersey as far fetched because: the Exchange owns $20,000,000 of property in Manhattan; brokers are bound by leases on offices; the undesirability of leaving the banking centre. Other brokers, whether to throw a scare into...