Tammany

LAMB: You talk in the book about the name Tammany, where it came from.

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America 2003

The district leaders are were all the Sachems of Tammany Hall, and the members of Tammany were called the Tammany Braves, and they would parade around town with war paint on.

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America 2003

At the conclusion of the roll-call the Tammany tellers, adding the aggregate vote to suit the needs of the occasion, pronounced the motion carried, while others declared it lost.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Washington's inauguration, an organization which was called the Tammany

The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet

His activity gave him strength, and his loyalty to the Martling Men, now known as Tammany, supplied him with backers enough to keep him continuously in office for thirty years.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Chief of Police in some great city has been found to be the head of a gang of international assassins, that things called Tammany and graft and saloons flourish there without let or hindrance, had attracted me to the United States.

Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

We shall have to fight it no one can tell how often or how long; for just as surely as we let up for ever so little a while, and Tammany, which is always waiting without, gets its foot between the door and the jamb, the old blackmail rears its head once more.

VI. In Mulberry Street 1904

He was, I believe, drawn by an American artist, and his face and clothes had a vaguely American appearance, which, in the region of subconscious association, further suggested to most onlookers the idea of Tammany

Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895

At the dawn of the 20th century, New York had been run for more than a generation by the corrupt Democratic political machine known as Tammany Hall.

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Organizations such as Tammany in New York City are founded on

The Promise of American Life Herbert David Croly 1899