Word: tammanyizing
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Since 1870 many a U.S. campus has been afflicted with the approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control...
In Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes...
O'Dwyer's emphatic denial brought forth hotter political dope: LaGuardia would run for a fourth term with Fusion, American Labor Party and Tammany backing. His re-election thus assured, he could stay at City Hall just long enough to run for U.S. Senator in 1946 with the...
Some of us whose memories go back to 1884 have very distinct recollection of the days of uncertainty following the Cleveland-Blaine election. In the final decision the electoral vote of New York State was the determining factor, and that state was given the Democrats by a majority of about...
The Hat took over, and in moved the C.I.O.'s potent P.A.C., which has replaced Tammany as a power in Manhattan politics. All leaves and vacations were canceled for New York's 15,000 policemen. To the members of New York's garment, clothing and furriers unions...