Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone knows something about Cartoonist Nast's great battle with paunchy Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall. Many remember that Abraham Lincoln called him "the North's best recruiting sergeant." Few remember that Thomas Nast, a potent political figure in the U. S. for 35 years, was born in Landau, Palatinate...
Sheriff Farley, a Tammany pillar and close friend of Boss John Francis Curry, lost his job not because he had been charged with incompetence, permitting gambling in his political club and retaining interest on litigants' money, but because he was unable credibly to explain a personal fortune of $357...
Ominously silent was Tammany, of whose support Governor Roosevelt may be in grave need when he goes before the national convention seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in June. Silent, too, was fun-loving Mayor James John Walker of New York City, whose business agent has been missing for months, at...
Two days after Sheriff Farley's removal the man who unearthed the evidence against him, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislative investigation, went to Cincinnati. Addressing the City Charter (Reform) Committee, he took a thrust at Governor Roosevelt for failing to oust Farley sooner, flayed Tammany corruption, sounded a...
Soon as Dr. Norwood's discoveries became known, New Yorkers began hunting other images in marble. The Evening Post announced it would investigate, photograph, report. In the new hotel Waldorf-Astoria was found a silly-looking moose and a little gnome with long beard and tall hat. In the Empire...