Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In New Orleans, Joe Martin of St. Tammany Parish, arraigned before U. S. Commissioners, sported a shiny belt buckle six inches wide engraved with two men drinking beer and the inscription, "Bootlegging King of Slidell."
The Downey success story, rewritten in such episodes, had been started in a chapter already partially forgotten five years before. A pudgy Irish youth, the son of a day laborer who raised a large family in Wallingford, Conn, and Brooklyn, he had stopped going to school when he was 15...
Though the Roosevelt lead over other candidates was certainly commanding, the nominating convention was still a year away and much could happen in that time. Alfred Emanuel Smith had yet to speak his mind on candidates. John Jacob Raskob's purposes were still obscure. A New York legislative committee...
The Society of Tammany, patriotic mainspring of New York City's practical Democratic machine, violated its own by-laws for the 19th consecutive time last week when it allowed John R. Voorhis to continue for another year as Grand Sachem. Under its rules a Grand Sachem serves one year...
(5 of 6) a cure or a palliative for cancer-they are uncertain of the cure, positive of the palliation-the rewards are stupendous in fame and wealth. For the wealth they care little. Dr. Coffey's professional income is more than $50,000 yearly, from the Southern Pacific...