Word: tammanyizing
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Perhaps the reaction to Tammany is strong enough to coalesce the Major's support beyond election day. One can do no more than say that this has never been the case in the past. Reform candidates have always been drawn, and with great force, to one or to the other...
Tammany conceded the election of Major LaGuardia as early as 10.30 o'clock last night. The latest returns, with only 242 of the 3,842 precincts unreported, were: LaGuardia, 799,297; McKee, 566,019; O'Brien, 550,321.
In New York the situation is unprecedented. Tammany, with its eggplant jowled O'Brien has cut its own throat and Fighting Major LaGuardia still looks to be a rabbit's foot ahead of Playboy McKee. Boston's prospects are problematical. The Beacon Hill minority that has been completely impotent in...
Probably no mayoralty contest in the United States has ever aroused more furor than the LaGuardia-McKee-Tammany struggle in the home of Broadway. From Times Square to the Pacific it is continuous front-page copy. But New York is not the only ostrich in the zoo. Boston, too, is...
The cry of BOSSISM was being flung about from candidate to candidate like a medicine ball. On this issue, Daniel F. Cohalan, an oldtime politician and member of Tammany's war board, delivered one of the campaign's most illuminating speeches. Cried he: "What is the boss system...