Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crain. After a mysterious conference with Governor Roosevelt, Referee Samuel Seabury began to wind up his hearing of misfeasance charges against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain, aged Tammany Sachem. In contrast to the dubious witnesses who have come before the inquiry for the past eight weeks was the appearance...
Walker. The admission of Professor Moley's testimony following the ominous conference between Referee Seabury and Governor Roosevelt cast a pall over Tammany Hall. Nor was the pall entirely dissipated by Governor Roosevelt's dismissal of ouster proceedings against Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker urged by the City...
Legislative Inquiry. With the ambiguous clearing of Mayor Walker and the growing certainty that the Governor will be unable to exonerate ineffectual Sachem Grain, Tammany girded up its loins for a bitter technical battle against the legislative investigation committee whose chiefs conferred in Manhattan late last week.
Newshawks soon swooped upon Miss Mathews for confirmation, elaboration. A "bribe" was paid before appointment, she explained. A "present'' is made after and she knew nothing about bribes. She said: "Women aren't really on the inside of politics anyway. I guess I'll have to get out of Tammany...
Immediately arose an excited chorus of Tammany's other women leaders: "We don't do anything like that in my district. . . . Why, I never heard of such a thing! ... I can't understand why Annie said anything like that. . . . That sort of thing is entirely foreign to me. . . . No, I...