Word: tammanyizing
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¶"We'll be ready," announced New York's Governor Lehman as the State Legislature settled down to enact a liquor-control law. Tammany Hall, caught by an alert press trying to mix beer and politics, fell in behind the Lehman control plan.
Chicago and Frank Joseph Corr were as surprised as were New York and John Patrick O'Brien last autumn when Tammany Boss Curry threw O'Brien into the mayoral gap left by Jimmy Walker. Said Acting Mayor Corr: "I didn't even know I was a candidate...
Tammany Hall furnished the first horrid example of what was in store for Democratic organizations that tried to buck the White House. On the first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the...
Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn, who is also a Democratic national committeeman, publicly repudiated his Congressional delegation's action, called its votes "asinine." Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany tried to weasel out of a boss's responsibility by saying that Manhattan representatives had not asked his...
Tammany Hall, whose James John ("Jimmy") Walker was forced out of New York City Hall by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, has been working with might & main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next...