Word: tammanyizing
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The striped paw of Tammany, which ordinarily shuns inquiries as the devil shuns holy water, has guided a committee of Manhattan's City Council in an investigation of the local Civil Service. Designed to make Fiorello LaGuardia look bad in case he runs for mayor again, the investigation has...
In Congress, the little man who wasn't there is white-haired, droopy-eyed Christopher D. Sullivan. He wasn't there again last week. The 70-year-old leader of Tammany Hall had folded his tent after 24 years as Representative of New York's Thirteenth Congressional...
Washington was used to not noticing Christy Sullivan. In all his years in Congress, Christy had never made a speech. He attended few sessions, left the actual running of the Tammany bloc in Congress to shrewd, pugnacious Tom Cullen of Brooklyn. Ways & Means Committeemen, among whom hew:as third-ranking...
When most members of Congress were busy composing speeches for the benefit of constituents back home. Christy's thoughts wandered to the race tracks of Laurel, Bowie or Havre de Grace. Friends who thought his heart was in the right place never accused him of having his heart in...
For four years the Hearst New York Journal & American had screamed that the city's schools and colleges were honeycombed with Reds. Bertrand Russell's appointment last spring to teach at City College (later overruled by the courts) was the last straw. Taxpayers, American Legionnaires and Tammanyites, who...