Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Followed a four-day hiatus, due to the death of the Mayor's younger brother George. The Mayor was put to bed with a case of "nervous exhaustion." He could not attend the wake. For George Walker's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral most of Tammany...
Two hours later he shook off sleuthing reporters and disappeared alone in his $17,000 nickel-trimmed Duesenberg. Somewhere about the city he met John Francis Curry, leader of Tammany Hall and John H. McCooey, Democratic boss of Brooklyn. At 10 p. m. he returned in high spirits to his...
Last week Job No. 2 had New York's political pot hubble-bubbling with newsy excitement. Election Day was only ten weeks off. In primaries Sept. 20 Republicans and Democrats will pick delegates to their respective State conventions at which nominations will be made. Inspired by the possibility of a...
Whoever is nominated by the Republicans will almost certainly be up against Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman, the State's present Lieutenant-Governor. Governor Roosevelt has made Colonel Lehman his political heir, will try to force his nomination at the Democratic State convention. Force may be necessary because of the hostile...
New York has three subway systems. Though I. R. T. is the largest, it is controlled by smaller Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. Chairman of both is grinning, square-jawed Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime director of Cleveland's traction properties, later a trouble-shooting vice president of Chase National Bank...