Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then last year the shadow arose. New York judges high and low, who the people were sure were crooked, began to be proved crooked. The power of Tammany in which Jean Norris had always trusted seemed insufficient to confound the inquisitors. Jean Norris' turn approached.
Steuer v. Kresel. While Judge Corrigan was still smarting at being made the squire of 48 wayward dames, Tammany got in its first successful dig at the Seabury investigation. The digger was astute Lawyer Max D. Steuer, good Tammany man, father of a municipal judge. As a special investigator of...
Again, Ewald. A jury last week dead locked and was dismissed after hearing evidence that George F. Ewald, with the aid of his pretty wife, had bought a magis tracy for $10,000 from Tammany underlings. Twice before had other juries dead locked on this case. Hiram C.Todd, special State...
Do-Nothing Mayor. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's public reaction to the vice investigation was, for the most part, passive. He did summon civic leaders to City Hall to warn them that the wholesale charges against his police department threatened a complete breakdown of police morale and the...
Cautious Governor. Meanwhile New York citizens who were revolted by corrupt conditions in city courts as revealed by Prosecutor Kresel turned hopefully to Albany and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. During last year's campaign Governor Roosevelt, a candidate for reelection, had touched on the city scandals only most gingerly...