Word: tammanyizing
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For the first time since the War, Tammany Hall faces a long lean winter of political starvation, not of four months but of four years. Ridiculed by civic organizations, proved corrupt by a righteous investigator, beaten at the polls by a fiery little Italian-American Major, the Tammany sachems have...
¶ Also in Washington on the same day was Tammany's badly trounced Boss John F. Curry, visiting his son, an undergraduate at Georgetown University; but no White House invitation got he. On the contrary, the President appointed to the politically potent post of collector of internal revenue in...
Two and one-half years ago, when the Scripps-Howard Telegram bought the New York World, Publisher Roy Wilson Howard hitched his wagon to a vanishing star. He said he wanted the World-Telegram to be what the World had been under the late great Joseph Pulitzer: New York'...
Scripps-Howard's high command was scarcely to be blamed for regarding Fusion's victory as their own. Certainly the World-Telegram had done more to help LaGuardia than any other New York paper. Its interest in the election had started when Publisher Howard inaugurated the "Write In...
In Manhattan appeared the first issues of the second U. S. Negro daily newspaper,* the Daily Citizen, published and edited by bald, brown William M. Kelley, onetime editor of the weekly Amsterdam News. Publisher Kelley got his paper started by selling stock at $5 a share to Harlem notables like...