Word: tammanyizing
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The election is seen not only as a defeat for Negroes and the MFDP, but also as a victory for NAACP leader Charles Evers, who has been described as Mississippi's "Tammany boss."
Not surprisingly, eight of the ten losing Vietnamese presidential candidates cried "we wuz robbed!"-before the votes were totted. Such protests, said former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge, one of the observers, reminded him of the Tammany maxim: "Claim everything, concede nothing, and if defeated, allege fraud." Added Lodge...
That kind of provocative coursemaking results in a mature (average age is 36) student body that includes not only bearded beats but rising young lawyers and mod yet earnest matrons. Among the most popular offerings are the New School's highly regarded art courses. Among its best-known alumnae...
Disaster & Disarray. The G.O.P.'s new direction and drive prompted a dire warning last week from one of the most articulate Democrats around. Address ing New York's Democratic Forum, former J.F.K. Speechwriter Ted Sorensen said that the 1966 election had plunged the Administration party into such "disaster...
Scheer's open appeal to Negroes and lower class whites probably alienated many Berkeley faculty members. "The Cal people didn't like me finding lawyers for Oakland winos and providing community services, like the old Tammany Hall," he says. "They said they couldn't vote for me because 'undesirables' were...