Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging...
Now carded for November is another fight between Messrs. Fay & O'Connor, for the latter, to be on the safe side, entered the Republican primary also, on a straight anti-Roosevelt platform. To the disgust of young Republican leaders who are trying to "liberalize" their party, Roosevelt-hating Republicans...
Nominee Fay also won the designation of the American Labor Party in his district. To be sure of getting all the anti-Roosevelt votes available in November, Nominee O'Connor last week prepared to run also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might...
Purgee-designate was the man who has represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner...
Purge-sponsored candidate, selected by the New Deal's chief metropolitan patronage dispenser, Boss Edward J. Flynn of The Bronx, was James Herbert Fay. Purgee O'Connor and Candidate Fay are to the naked eye as much alike as two Irish politicians, but Mr. Fay, unlike Mr. O...