Word: tammanyizing
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Johnny dies-on Christmas day, of course-in time to allow Katie (from whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to...
Is Wendell Willkie tarred with the Democratic brush? Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News, bitter Willkie foe, relentlessly tells its 2,000,000 daily readers that Willkie was once a "Tammany Democrat." Willkie opponents within the G.O.P. sneer at his One-Worldliness as an imitation of Henry...
The hotel came to be a focal point for high society, for the world of letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany...
As I sit here preparing to dish out a few choice tidbits about the famous Co. Baker, I am greatly harassed by a certain Nav Comm strategist who is eagerly slugging quarters into the telephone. He sure pays an awful lot to tell someone in Chicago that he loves her...
Now the ALPmen began to scrabble about for a candidate. Desperately they proposed Rex Tugwell, Adolf Berle, Wendell Willkie, Fiorello LaGuardia and Dorothy Thompson. None, of course, was "available." A.L.P. finally settled on moonfaced, bespectacled Dean Alfange, 44, lawyer, author and onetime unsuccessful Tammany candidate for Congress. Although his was...