Word: tammanyizing
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For such airy reasons Fiorello H. (for Enrico) LaGuardia was in deep trouble last week. Hard upon him was the quadrennial mayoralty election; hotter than ever on his neck was the breath of the unkillable Tammany Tiger. And Tammany had a new argument: "New York wants a full-time Mayor...
He was against it. He was against tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, corsets, cocoa, ginger ale, sirloin steak, vaccination, capital punishment, Tammany Hall and artificially flavored lollipops. He could spot a cocoa drinker at 20 paces by the "yellow eyes and degenerate skin." Once he weaned a Sing Sing death-house...
Wailed one of his French critics: "He compared the shepherds of primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He...
> Tammany Democrats voting against the Administration because the New Deal is tacitly backing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia for reelection;
Man of Logic. If these reasonable words did not bring soldiers to toss their hats in air and give a rousing cheer, no one had cause to be surprised. For the quality of Henry Stimson is to persuade rather than to rouse. His lack of success at rabble-rousing was...