Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶"We'll be ready," announced New York's Governor Lehman as the State Legislature settled down to enact a liquor-control law. Tammany Hall, caught by an alert press trying to mix beer and politics, fell in behind the Lehman control plan.
Though the spirit of Congress was new, its mechanics were as old as the U. S. Proceedings began in the House with the election of Illinois' white-thatched Henry Thomas Rainey to the Speakership as a result of last fortnight's Tennessee-Texas-Tammany deal in the Democratic...
Tennessee, Tammany and Texas combined last week to name the new Speaker of the House-Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois. Out of the deal Tennessee got the floor leadership. Tammany the assistant floor leadership, Texas the chairmanship of the potent Committee on Appropriations.
The three-way deal dominated the caucus from the start. Withdrawing from the major contest, Representative Byrns nominated Representative Rainey for Speaker after which Representative Rainey nominated Representative Byrns for majority leader. Tammany, always partial to a winner, swung its votes behind the Rainey-Byrns ticket in return for the...
2:30 p. m.-Enter the Court of Honor built on Pennsylvania Avenue to review the six-mile parade composed of soldiers, sailors, marines, troopers, national guardsmen, high school cadets, 25 governors, visiting firemen, police squads, G. A. R. veterans (one car), C. S. A. veterans (five cars), American Legionaries...