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Tammany Plus. The small, smart, efficient high command of Poland's Communists, which one observer told me was "Tammany Hall with Tommy guns," plans to fight its battles one at a time, though occasionally these overlap. The projected seven-point program of absorption: 1) the wartime London government -in...
After a tour of duty in the consular service, he came back to New York, got a job as an interpreter at Ellis Island, studied law at night and began pointing toward politics. In 1916 he ran for Congress as a Republican in a Tammany-controlled district, and amazed everyone...
Comeback. Actually, it had just begun. When the Seabury Investigation forced dapper Jimmy Walker out of New York's City Hall, a Fusion Party was born and Fiorello LaGuardia, its candidate for mayor, rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he...
Out of the consciousness of their own unhonored self-denial, out of their peculiar "loyalty," comes the sentimentality which is a distinguishing mark of professional politicians. Flynn, in telling of his hero, Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall, recalls with typical sentimentality a typical political maneuver:
In the teaching of these courses, the editorial continued, "seasoned politicians and such low characters as newspapermen, press agents, and even Tammany district leaders should play a prominent part."