Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The first game, against a selection from 32 teams in & around New York City, was attended by a crowd of 25,000 whooping, yelling Irishmen who shouted loudest when they saw a broken head. They nearly saw one in the first seconds of the game. When Boss John Francis Curry...
This week slim little James John Walker officially ceased to be Mayor of the City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has found that Tammany Hall was holding up him and the other builders of Manhattan's Radio City, for the granting of privileges for entrancesand garages. He threatened to withdraw the project, threatened to tell Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the city's municipal scandals...
Seabury: Don't you think it is a great piece of impertinence for you, simply because you are the leader of Tammany Hall to oblige lawyers about locating a judge for them?
The Democratic Governor's call for a special session to arm its foes, Tammany construed as an unfriendly and disloyal act. Its leaders cursed him under breath, publicly declared that he was putting himself and his party "into a hole" Tammany's men in the Legislature were prepared...