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Word: tammanyizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago, a racketeering young lady from Manhattan named Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon was taken for a ride in Van Cortlandt Park, was later found in the shrubbery, strangled (TIME, March 9). When it became known that five days prior she had gone to court with frameup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: The Lady & The Tiger | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Crain. The nomination and election of Mr. Crain in 1929 were commonly regarded as a feat of window-dressing by Tammany Hall. Chief qualifications of Mr. Grain for his job were that he had a reputation for austerity on the bench, was a Tammany sachem, had been a jobholder for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: The Lady & The Tiger | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Acting on the City Club's charges, Governor Roosevelt took advantage of the public office law. To hear Sachem Grain's defense at a private trial he appointed Samuel Seabury, the referee of judiciary and police inquiry, which last week sent its first policeman to jail for perjury. When Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: The Lady & The Tiger | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Behind him in the noisome city where his word is law and his wink worth $50.000, a tumult has broken forth and moral prelates and amoral Republicans are piling advice on vice. The Tammany Tiger is trying to purr like a pussy cat but it seems to have an impolitic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAUGHTER LIMITED | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Partly this is because suave Mr. Steuer is a strong Tammany man and Mr. Kresel is Tammany's vigorous opponent. In the midst of his attack upon Tammany's Magistrates, this indictment was brought against him. Promptly Mr. Kresel resigned his post as investigator of the courts-score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Footing the Bill | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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