Word: tammanyizing
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Broadway Baby. The U.S. had never seen anything quite like Jimmy Walker. He grew up in Manhattan's Greenwich Village with the cigar smoke of Tammany Hall in his nostrils. His father was a Democratic alderman. But Jimmy's heart always belonged to Broadway.
After school and college (St. Francis Xavier's, New York Law School) he began haunting Tin Pan Alley. He scribbled song lyrics for years. He was 28 years old before his Uncle James Roon marched him down to a Tammany boss, Charles W. ("Cash & Carry") Culkin, and got him...
Lavender & Jazz. In 1925, when the aroma of moonshine hung like lavender over the big Bull Market, Tammany ran him for mayor. He was the people's choice. He was an hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He...
¶ Representative Sol Bloom, 76, son of poor Polish immigrants, former showman, lyrics writer, theater owner, real-estate operator, who entered Tammany politics after he had successfully retired at 50. At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, when he was 23, he was the concessionaire who introduced the "Dance...
To East Harlem's workaday citizens, however, Marcantonio is the man who fought Lend-Lease and the draft-until Germany invaded Russia; the man who has repeatedly denied Communist leanings while faithfully following the gyrations of the party line. Tammany, the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. and the A.L.P. were...