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"You can't buy votes. That went out with Tammany Hall," Graham said, referring to the powerful 19th-century New York City Democratic political machine.
Part of the mayor's problem is style. Unlike the prickly Koch, Dinkins rarely raises his voice and disdains the finger-in-your-chest aggressiveness that has characterized New York politicians since the days of Tammany Hall. He is far more comfortable in quiet back-room negotiations than in public...
HARVARD Democracy, Tammany Hall Style: During the Undergraduate Council's campus-wide referendum to decide whether students should choose the council chair by plebiscite, I had occasion to watch a few of my democratically-elected representatives at work.
AN honest politician, according to the old Tammany Hall proscription, is one who stays bought.
| These are all slow-moving developments, of course, and probably no single headline ever announced any one of them. Indeed, even political news often is hard to judge all at once. On the day after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917 -- one of Daniel's top ten events...