Word: tammanyizing
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Wobbly Wings. Wings are a characteristic of the Democratic party?the urban Irish-Catholic wing of Tammany Hall and New England; the conservative Protestant wing of the South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination...
Many of the Mayor's friends were dismayed at his strategy. They felt that to seek political asylum in the courts was not meeting the issues "on the facts." As for Governor Roosevelt, most spectators had only praise for the direct and fearless way he had handled the Walker examination...
Unable to satisfy Governor Roosevelt without corroborative testimony, Mayor Walker had 22 witnesses subpoenaed for his defense. Of these eight were important New York State Republicans. Counsel Curtin was going to try to prove by them that the Tammany investigation was a G. O. P. plot inspired from Washington to...
"Attaboy, Jimmy! . . . You show'em! Jimmy! . . . Good luck, Jimmy! . . . Get in there and fight, Jimmy!" The friendly farewells of some 5,000 raucous New Yorkers echoed in the Grand Central Station last week as their saucy little Mayor. James John Walker, entrained for Albany. A few hostile boos were...
Missouri. To succeed Harry Bartow Hawes, retiring voluntarily from the Senate to work for wild life, Democrats nominated Bennett Champ Clark, 42-year-old son of the late great Speaker of the House. Nominee Clark, militant Wet, was a genuine A. E. F. colonel. He helped found the American Legion...