Word: tammanyizing
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The Democrats whooped it up in like fashion. New York Democrats, at a big dinner at the Waldorf, were treated to the spectacle of Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio solemnly reading a "Nixon nomination-acceptance speech," patterned after 'Twas the Night Before Christmas:
Died. John J. O'Connor, 74, Tammany-sponsored Democratic Congressman from New York City (1923-38), chairman of the House Rules Committee (1932-38), who paid for his fight in the House against President Roosevelt's court-packing plan by being the only victim of F.D.R.'s...
There was Texas' own Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate and favorite son of a nearly solid South, campaigning unofficially for the Presidency deep in the heart of New York City. Technically his three-day invasion of the North began with rounds of luncheons, speeches and conferences...
Embarrassing Question. Jack's troubles began last month when New York Post reporters, following up a tip, asked him an embarrassing question: Who had paid for the 1958 remodeling of his six-room Harlem apartment? Cried Jack: "I haven't a damn thing to say about it, and...
To New York Negroes the borough presidency is a prized possession-and one they do not intend to relinquish easily. In the early days of the Jack investigation, even Harlem's U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who once denounced him as "chief Uncle Tom on the Tammany plantation," expressed...