Word: tammanymen
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...therefore quite as essential for him to reach a compromise as for Mayor LaGuardia. And having reached it, it was even more essential that he get the measure passed. This was no easy job. The Upper House has a Democratic majority of one, but they are mostly Tammanymen who waged a bitter fight against Lehman (& Roosevelt) two years ago. The Lower House is Republican but two factions of Repub licans spent eight days quarreling over the election of a clerk. Finally on the ninth day the Assembly got itself organized, prepared to send the Economy Bill to a special committee...
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