Word: tammanyizing
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In the 1936 campaign, Farley shared an ovation in Chicago with the President. The next day Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre came "to tell me that 'they thought it best' " Farley should not appear on a platform with Roosevelt "because of the Tammany situation."
Eight years ago, in Tommy Gallagher's Crusade, James T. Farrell beat his readers over the head with a poleax to make much the same point. Novelist Harry Sylvester, born in Brooklyn and schooled at Notre Dame, is considerably subtler as a storyteller, though hardly more graceful as a...
But he also happens to have a few "Catholic radical" acquaintances, and though far from a radical himself, he objects when a pugnacious Brooklynite damns Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "filthy Jew advisers." One day Billy Ryan, the neighborhood Tammany boss, looks Moon straight in the eye and thunders, "You...
In off hours' Subway Sam, 64, who fancies himself as a ladies' man, has made himself conspicuous in Mexico City's night life. A great partygiver, gambler and promoter of sport and charities, he has found Mexican politicos as susceptible to his loud charms as Tammany Hall...
Rosoff quickly branched out into building roads and canals, raising sunken ships, running bus lines, etc. He made and lost several fortunes. It was not until 1923, when he discovered Tammany Hall and the political technique of wangling subway contracts, that he really hit the jackpot.