Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Tammany's big-bodied, lantern-jawed stopgap, moved into New York City Hall fortnight ago, he promptly hung up in his private office a picture of Rev. Michael Earls who had taught him English at Holy Cross College. Last week the O...
The Board of Estimate pledged a $40,000,000 budget cut-half in salaries, half in other expenses-to bankers who had helped the city out of a hole. After the salary cut had been made, Mayor O'Brien began to muse aloud to the Press to the effect...
There are 77 Johnsons (and Johnstons), 62 Joneses. Newton Diehl Baker contributes the sketch of his fellow-townsman Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist (street railways), who was converted to the single tax by Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New...
Last week John Patrick O'Brien became the 101st Mayor of New York City. Before Tammany picked him for its docile dummy in City Hall vice James John ("Jimmy") Walker, resigned, vice Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe'') McKee, acting,
Died. Belle Lindner Israels Moskowitz, 55, good friend & adviser to Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime publicity director for the New York State Democratic Committee; of complications following a fall down her front steps last month when she broke both arms; in Manhattan. A practical idealist, she plotted Smith's political...