Word: tammanyizing
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In the end, the exile activist community that has organized the campaign to keep Elian in the U.S. is unlikely to give the last word to lawyers or legislators. "At stake for the Cuban-American National Foundation is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall - and as...
Maybe you've been lucky enough to see The Humming at a Dudley Co-op party. Maybe you had no idea that a new rock-and-roll sensation was growing right under your nose in fair Cambridge. Either way, now you know, and there's no excuse for missing them...
In American politics, there are few more powerful factors than the your-own-man-says-so rule. Genuinely undecided voters are often so taken with a break from partisanship that they pay such dissidents special attention. When the New York Herald Tribune, which had helped found the modern G.O.P., picked...
There's something thrillingly voyeuristic about discovering that a well-known Tammany Hall politician was actually a woman who fooled her cronies and two wives, or finding out what T.E. Laurence was really doing in the Arabian desert.
But the Irish had a gift for mutual self-help and taking care of their own. Out of this instinct, manifest in America's dozens of "little Dublins," emerged institutions, like New York City's notorious Tammany Hall, that would transform the quality and character of urban politics in America...