Word: tammanyizing
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This condemnation from a hard-boiled politician of the Tammany stripe sent the Roosevelt crowd into a rage. Shrieked Senator Long: "Just the funeral march? the last screech of defeat! All Frank Hague knows is the road to Manhattan."
"Roosevelt or Smith?" Each & every delegate, Roosevelt-pledged or not. also received by mail a pamphlet entitled "Roosevelt or Smith?" Compiled and distributed by Hamilton A. Long, Manhattan attorney, it undertook to show, by editorials from the New York Press, what "home folks" thought of the two New Yorkers. Assets...
Also to be dickered with was Tammany Hall's bloc of some 40 uncommitted votes which might decide a close nomination. Their price was plain: for Roosevelt if he could win quickly and James John Walker were not removed by him as Mayor; against him if Smith proved that he...
Smith Week. Before starting for a convention that promised to be as indecorous and undignified as any he had ever attended, Al Smith spent a quiet week in New York. While fishing off Long Island he met with John Francis Curry, Tammany chieftain, and Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn...
A Form Prize-winner at Groton was Tudor Gardiner, son of Maine's Governor William Tudor Gardiner. At Andover Ring W. Lardner Jr., son of the taciturn humorist, won two English prizes, one honorable mention. Eugene O'Neill Jr. won a Greek philosophy prize, was named Ivy Orator at Yale...