Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On p. 12 of the same issue, describing the "Anti-Tammany Cow," your repeated incorrect use of "udders," indicating the cow's teats, will amuse farm-raised TiME-readers-perhaps a more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but...
New York citizens, in spite of a year-long muckraking inquiry into the city government, which is Tammany Hall, swept the Hall into complete municipal control once more. The Democratic State organization had hoped to elect a majority to the Assembly and thereby emasculate the Legislature's investigation of New...
This year Socialist Thomas was running for president of the Borough of Manhattan in municipal election. The Democratic nominee was Samuel Levy, incumbent Tammany hack. Col. Edward C. ("Night Boat") Carrington, president & board chairman of Hudson River Navigation Corp., the Republican nominee, had come into bad odor when it was...
Never has Socialist Thomas been elected to any public job. But the Wickersham endorsement heartened forlorn independents. Perhaps a political miracle might happen. On that basis the potent New York World-Telegram declared for Candidate Thomas in a stirring editorial, cartooned him as outrunning lame Col. Carrington. Tammany-burdened Mr...
It might be noted, however, that with all its corruption and fraud, Tammany has given New York a very efficient government. The complete failure of the "reform" administration not many years ago, or a comparison with the civil organization of Chicago would prove this fact. But at any rate New...