Word: tammanyizing
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Where the old Tammany was formerly organized from the top down, De Sapio sponsored a new law which will make it much easier for insurgents to become Democratic district leaders by direct election.
Tammany Boss Richard Croker was a harsh, cold man. But even Croker well understood the function of Tammany Hall, and he could speak of it with eloquence and emotion. "Think," he said, "what New York is and what the people of New York are. One half, more than one half...
Tammany, said Croker, "looks after them for the sake of their vote, grafts them upon the Republic, makes citizens of them, in short; and although you may not like our motives or our methods, what other agency is there by which so long a row could have been hoed so...
Here Comes the Commander. But the torrent of immigration after 1920 was slowed, by national law, to a trickle. The children of the foreigners went to U.S. schools and learned U.S. ways. The welfare state, with its vast governmental social services, sublimated and institutionalized the old relationship between the political...
Where the old Tammany used to pass around food baskets and coal buckets, De Sapio's Tammany makes public-minded donations to blood banks. Where the old bosses packed the City Hall with hoodlums and hacks, De Sapio helps to find good men-Tammany men, that is-to work...