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This defeat was nothing new for Tammany. Fusion mayors were elected before, about once in a generation, and on the whole their election was all to Tammany's advantage. After the city had been run to the verge of bankruptcy where there was little profit left in running it...
But last week, when the leaders of Tammany assembled to choose a candidate to regain the city hall for them, they were a very worried group of men. Something had happened to turn topsy-turvy the best of all political worlds in which they had so long dwelt. For three...
New York City does not lie in one county but in five: New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx and Richmond (Staten Island). Tammany, the Democratic organization of New York County, used to be in the position of the Mother Country of an empire, controlling as the oldest and largest...
But Tammany has one greater difficulty: if it does not dominate the politics of the other boroughs, it will be dominated by them. The Democratic boss of The Bronx is Edward J. Flynn, an oldtime henchman of Jim Farley and onetime Secretary of State in Governor Franklin Roosevelt's...
Bedside Manner-The man on whom Tammany last week bestowed its standard was a U. S. Senator. Certain was Tammany that it needed a potent vote-getter to win and who could be better than one of its own sons, Bob Wagner, son of a German janitor, brought up in...