Word: tammanyizing
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This week slim little James John Walker officially ceased to be Mayor of the City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has found that Tammany Hall was holding up him and the other builders of Manhattan's Radio City, for the granting of privileges for entrancesand garages. He threatened to withdraw the project, threatened to tell Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the city's municipal scandals...
Seabury: Don't you think it is a great piece of impertinence for you, simply because you are the leader of Tammany Hall to oblige lawyers about locating a judge for them?
As he calmly took the witness stand, applause rang out from his friends packed into the court room. Waiting to question him was large, pontifical Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, the committee's counsel, spearhead of the forces of Reform. The subject of the interrogation was a telephone call made by...
The Democratic Governor's call for a special session to arm its foes, Tammany construed as an unfriendly and disloyal act. Its leaders cursed him under breath, publicly declared that he was putting himself and his party "into a hole" Tammany's men in the Legislature were prepared...