Word: tammanyizing
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The reasons are two: 1) Mrs. Hearst is popular ? much more so than her husband ? with certain Tammany politicians; 2) Mr. Hearst and his press are likely, out of fealty to Mrs. Hearst, to treat kindly any Democratic ticket which includes the publisher's wife. The death of...
Among the distinguished medical men on the program were Friedrich Wenckebach, Viennese heart specialist; F. G. Banting, of insulin fame; E. V. McCollum, vitamin expert of Johns Hopkins; A. B. Luckhardt, Chicago physiologist; Walter Timme, neuroendocrinologist of New York; Fred H. Albee, surgeon. The business of the Association was transacted...
" There is a Tammany Hall in this country in the drink trade which is as highly organized as the Tammany Hall in America. We are back in the condition that prevailed in 1916, when the national energy was seriously impaired by drink ! '
"By all means have the Democratic Convention in New York City ?and let us hold it in Tammany Hall, or in the New York Central Station, or in the spacious offices of Banker Morgan, under the smiling portrait of King George."
Parallels are not hard to find with Theodore Roosevelt,* whose neice he married. Both went to Harvard, to Albany, to the Navy Department on the eve of war, and both were shuttled into vice presidential candidates. Franklin is as good a Democrat as Theodore was a Republican. He fought Tammany...