Word: tammanyizing
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Thus on the night of October 24 to thousands of radio listeners came the dramatic voice of New York's youthful District Attorney-Nominee Thomas Edmund Dewey. In the subsequent account of the underworld connections of Tammany's Marinelli, Mr. Dewey charged him not only with hobnobbing with...
If Mr. Dewey's Tammany targets expected that his campaign speeches would be forgotten after his resounding victory at the polls last month, they were soon disillusioned. Day after election, an organization christened as the "Joint Committee on the County Clerk" wrote Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman suggesting that...
I nominate New York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia for 1937 Man of the Year because he was the first person ever to tie the bell of doom around the neck of that nine-lived Tammany cat two times in a row.
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and...
Last week some 70 Moslems removed their shoes before climbing the stairs of their Brooklyn mosque, which until six years ago was a Tammany clubhouse, before that a Protestant church. Today the clean, shiny mosque looks like a Polish church, decorated in pink, yellow and blue, the Moslem star & crescent...