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...It is somewhat clogged with antebellum politics, and it can be hard to chart a course between the various factions at play in the city: Tammany Hall Democrats, Abolitionists, Know-Nothings and Dead Rabbits...
...For instance, Gandhi’s convoluted jousting that caused Subhas Chandra Bose to resign as president of the Indian National Congress in 1939 would have done many a Tammany Hall politician proud....
...In Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese made him Tammany Hall scoundrel William “Boss” Tweed. For Luhrmann, he was svengali Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge....
...The idea that we all live in some great Tammany Hall of deceit and graft is not just wrong. It enables it to become true....
...The party of Tammany Hall and Lyndon Johnson should avoid such self-regard. Chuck Schumer, Mr McConnell’s opposite number, set himself against Mr Kavanaugh as soon as he was nominated....
...Hall boss, and Margaret Thatcher “The Power Brokers”....
...— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall The quote above is from the infamous Tammany Hall political machine in New York....
...The US has a long history of election fraud, dating back to New York City’s Tammany Hall in the 19th century, when Democratic Party supporters employed people to cast multiple ballots and intimidate opposition...
...Only when the lyrics turn to Fiorello’s raffish Tammany-Hall rival, “Gentleman” Jimmy Walker, do we begin to feel a bit of old-style zip....
...This is the world of New York City under Tammany Hall, of Suharto’s Indonesia, and of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Reliance on rules and law has enormous advantages....
...Hall structure....
...Public corruption is not just a relic of Tammany Hall, the Democratic party organisation that ran city and state politics well into the 20th century....
...Koch became active as an opponent of Tammany Hall, the Democratic political machine that had dominated New York since the 19th century....
...And again, attempts to manipulate the markets go a long way back; Mr Wolfers found that the Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York politics at the turn of the last century attempted to skew the markets...
...The Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883 at a cost of only $15.5m, linked the Tammany Hall fiefdom of Boss William Tweed with the Brooklyn stronghold of Boss Hugh McLaughlin....
...Poor governance is nothing new in the Empire State – New York City’s Tammany Hall has long been a byword for political corruption....
...Through its pages, New York at the turn of the century comes alive: the rise and fall of Tammany Hall, the HQ of the Democratic party through which city life was corruptly manipulated; the oppressive summer...
...Tammany Hall bosses in New York used to send people to be seen betting on the Democrats in the street outside the American Stock Exchange building in downtown Manhattan....
...“It’s an effort to build a kind of religious Tammany Hall. And it is just as corrupting and injurious to the body politic as Tammany Hall was.”...
...Hall’s notorious “Boss” Tweed bought an estate and built a large political meeting hall at what is now the Indian Harbor Yacht Club....
...His father, also a lawyer, was a partner of Fiorello La Guardia, the city's vivid congressman and mayor, and the young Cutler was told tales of Tammany Hall shenanigans round the family dinner table....
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