Word: tammanyizing
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Mayor LaGuardia was anxious to do over New York City at once. But doing over implied doing New York City's established political machines out of many jobs, and out of much power. Tammany naturally opposed it, and Tammany-elected State Legislators stood against it, but they were not...
It was beaten by the henchmen of Edward J. Flynn, who was reappointed New York Secretary of State by Governor Lehman when he took office. Flynn is the Democratic boss of The Bronx. While serving as Governor Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Boss Flynn broke with Tammany, cannily made...
Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he...
Nine thousand New York City drivers were striking against their companies' disposal of a 5?-per-ride tax that the Tammany administration laid on last year. The companies had passed the tax on to the public by raising the first-quarter-mile rate from 15? to 20?. The public...
Huey Long might as well have spared his pains, his State's money and his voice for last week New Orleans indignantly smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket...