Word: tammanyizing
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(Continued) velt drive toward the White House without being ill-tempered or gloomy. A favorite "Ding" theme derives from the Republican charge that Governor Roosevelt has neglected to keep his own state in economic order, has permitted stock speculators, crooked bankers, corrupt Tammany politicians and criminals in general to run...
The meeting came to life when someone got up and read a radiogram from "Jimmy" Walker. Boastful as ever, he declared: "I have a justifiable pride in my six and a half years as Mayor. I know I could be re-elected by another overwhelming plurality. ... I cannot see how...
With nomination of his candidate Boss Curry was still boss. Nominee O'Brien, whose son rooms with Boss Curry's at Harvard Law School, has been a docile Tammany sheep for 35 years. He began as an assistant corporation counsel, was made corporation counsel in 1920 by Mayor...
The judicial deal whereby Tammany endorsed its inquisitor. Republican State Senator Samuel Hofstadter, for the Supreme Court bench began to bear fruit for the Democrats last week. Republican State Chairman Kingsland Macy, shocked and resentful, denounced the deal as "an unspeakable idea." The Association of the Bar of the City...
Two days after the Garden meeting less than half of the city's 8,747 Republican committeemen convened in Mecca Temple, nominated a sag-jowled, 71-year-old Brooklyn realtor named Lewis Humphrey Pounds. In 1924 Mr. Pounds had been elected State Treasurer after he had been awakened from...