Word: fusion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week the Democratic Governor of the most populous state in the Union stalked up & down in his office. He was thoroughly mad. He was not mad at Republicans. His chief ally was the Republican-Fusion Mayor of the biggest U. S. city. But he was thoroughly mad at Democrats, particularly at his own Secretary of State, and at the Postmaster General...
...Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance to seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany's slipping grasp. Once in a generation a revulsion of feeling elects a Fusion-Reform Administration, but between times, year after year, the local Democratic machine rules the city. To the ambitions of Bosses Farley and Flynn Mayor LaGuardia's plan for revamping the city government was as great a danger as it was to Tammany. So the votes of their henchmen killed...
...fault in not having made this distinction, in giving carte blanche to Mr. Hurley and then in refusing to face the implications which that carte blanche contained. whatever adjustment he may make must be a rough adjustment, for particular and general issues must be differently handled, and their fusion in the Auditor's investigation has resulted in making the proper separation impossible...
...elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...
...John Henry ("Uncle John") McCooey, 69, Democratic boss of Brooklyn since 1909, Democratic National Committeeman from New York; of myocarditis; in Brooklyn. A rotund, jovial man with sweeping white mustaches, he kept his machine firmly allied to Tammany Hall except for one quickly healed break in 1925. With the Fusion victory of last November he found his dominion slipping, saw Federal patronage dispensed in his own demesne without his consent...