Word: tammanyizing
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Democratic political leaders should build their party organizations into "strong, active, and cohesive units," Carmine DeSapio, head of Tammany Hall, stated last night before the Law School Forum.
No wonder that by this time (he was 16) Rothstein had won the respect and almost the affection of Tammany Hall's East Side boss, "Big Tim" Sullivan. Rothstein went to work for Big Tim as a kind of errand boy, and began to show the wisdom he was...
"It's stupid," protested Pennsylvania's new Democratic Governor David Lawrence, longtime National Committeeman. Among those who agreed were New York's Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, and Illinois' veteran National Committeeman Jack Arvey. In ragged unison the powerful Democratic...
If the people of New York State expressed their revulsion and rebellion by repudiating "bossism" at the polls, it cannot be denied that Mr. Harriman's vacillating character and Mayor Wagner's indecisiveness were also repudiated. If Tammany Hall Carmine De Sapio slaughtered the ceremonial pig on which...
He was, as Handlin said this week, "purely opportunistic... The worst part of his effect was that he kept confusing any kind of issue with which he dealt. People influenced by him never got to confront problems even as directly as in New York where, though you had Tammany, the...