Word: tammanyizing
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2) Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her...
Full Measure. Reasons omitted, the Hoover victory loomed as one to which Republicans would be able to point with effective pride for several political generations. Against the most formidable Democrat since Wilson, Hoover had won the most overwhelming majority since Grant smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the...
He sat down among some 700 other anticipants, most of them Tammany politicians but with a sprinkling of the general public. A girl, just "a" girl, had the chair next him. He had never seen her before, did not know her name (Edna Ryder) but he talked with her from...
Evidently a man could be a hero at home so long as he did not leave home. There was, of course, talk that Tammany Hall had "laid down" on the man that tried to outgrow it. But no such talk came from the man. He knew that people think differently...
Tammany. All Democrats admitted that their man's connection with Tammany Hall weakened him nationally.