Word: tammanyizing
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In mass if not mind their assembly constituted the largest political convention ever held in the U. S. Collectively they made up the county committees in the city's five boroughs-the Democratic machine loosely referred to as Tammany. Individually they ruled atomic election district¯sgrubby little politicians...
That afternoon the State Court of Appeals had finally decided that New York City must elect a Mayor next month to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation under-fire last month of James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Hawk-beaked, tight-mouthed John Francis Curry, the Tammany boss whose leadership had...
onetime Tammany boss; Max David Steuer, Tammany's legal brains. They were there to settle the nomination and they did.
Boss Curry wanted Walker again, who was speeding home on the Europa. But New Yorkers were utterly sick of "Jimmy." His nomination, it was agreed, would be the weakest Tammany could make. Edward Joseph Flynn, the Bronx boss, wanted his man Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee kept in City Hall...
Governor Roosevelt's relations with Tammany were strained almost to the breaking point. Its turndown of Justice Rosenman in Manhattan was a direct slap at him on local patronage. If it succeeded in defeating Mr. Lehman at Albany and then encumbered the party ticket with Walker's renomination in New...