Word: tammanyizing
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TIME, Oct. 25, reporting the repercussions in New York City politics caused by the MARCH OF TIME'S filming of Fusion Mayor LaGuardia, says that Tammany Hall controls Radio City's Music Hall. This is such a gross canard that I do not see how TIME ever dared...
Not so with the Tammany District Attorney's Office. Here such grave inefficiency was found, and such evident connection between the prosecution agency and the gangsters who four years ago held the City in their grip, that Governor Lehman set up a Special Prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey, with all powers...
Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and...
But in his few years as Special Prosecutor, Mr. Dewey has not unearthed any more conclusive proof of the unregenerate nature of Tammany Hall than in his speech last Sunday in which he showed that Albert Marinelli, Tammany leader in the 2nd Assembly District and New York County Clerk, was...
For Tammany and the Democratic machine has proved itself bankrupt of moral responsibility and utterly unfitted to rule a modern city. In no department is Tammany less fitted than in that dealing with the enforcement of law and order. And yet the Tammany candidate for Mayor seriously asks an electorate...