Word: tammanyizing
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Jim Farley remembers the years: 1928, when he managed Franklin Roosevelt's first campaign for the Governorship of New York; 1930 and immediately thereafter, when Tammany's Farley and a few discerning others began to think that their Governor might be a President; and the Governor's...
Gang murders like those over which the Brooklyn District Attorney has been putting on such a show (TIME, April 1) are the gruesome small change of the underworld business. Thompson & Raymond are concerned to demonstrate that underworld business would never have nourished in New York City in the '20s...
The tie-up between politics and mobs was in practice intricate and devious, but Raymond & Thompson give a useful diagram of the mechanism. Founded on Tammany use of hoodlums and floaters to get out the vote and win elections in the 23 assembly districts of Manhattan, the mechanism involved Tammany...
Like most books by working newspapermen, this one is better in detail than in structure. Authors Thompson & Raymond never develop their reference to a fact which would seem highly relevant to the present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the...
Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor...