Word: tammanyizing
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In the principal battles, to be sure, Democratic victories were predictable. Unpredicted, however, was the way they won against frequently paper-thin Republican opposition. In New York City, Mayor Robert Wagner crushed G.O.P. Opponent Robert Christenberry by a plurality just under the 1,000,000 that Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio...
Thus virtually unchallenged, Democrat Wagner is campaigning less against Christenberry than against complacency. New York's mayor can be a big fish in national Democratic waters; in addition, New York's Wagner wants desperately to be elected to the U.S. Senate (he lost last year to Republican Jacob...
The investigators are dictator-hating New Dealer Morris L. Ernst, who has spent most of his career as a pugnacious battler for civil rights, and Republican William H. Munson, an ex-district attorney and New York State Supreme Court justice. The publicist: Sydney S. Baron, speechwriter for Tammany Boss Carjnine...
Died. John Francis Curry. 83, Tammany Hall boss from 1929 to 1934 when fellow committee members had to oust him after a prestige-devastating series of defeats, e.g., backing Al Smith against Franklin D. Roosevelt for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination; in Coral Gables, Fla.
With the election of crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines's big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire...