Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In mass if not mind their assembly constituted the largest political convention ever held in the U. S. Collectively they made up the county committees in the city's five boroughs-the Democratic machine loosely referred to as Tammany. Individually they ruled atomic election district¯sgrubby little politicians...
That afternoon the State Court of Appeals had finally decided that New York City must elect a Mayor next month to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation under-fire last month of James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Hawk-beaked, tight-mouthed John Francis Curry, the Tammany boss whose leadership had...
onetime Tammany boss; Max David Steuer, Tammany's legal brains. They were there to settle the nomination and they did.
Boss Curry wanted Walker again, who was speeding home on the Europa. But New Yorkers were utterly sick of "Jimmy." His nomination, it was agreed, would be the weakest Tammany could make. Edward Joseph Flynn, the Bronx boss, wanted his man Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee kept in City Hall...
The meeting came to life when someone got up and read a radiogram from "Jimmy" Walker. Boastful as ever, he declared: "I have a justifiable pride in my six and a half years as Mayor. I know I could be re-elected by another overwhelming plurality. ... I cannot see how...