tammany in A Sentence

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    Tammany Hall dominated local politics for decades.

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    His establishments were often frequented by Tammany Hall politicians.

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    These Tammany banks helped to make Tweed the third-largest landowner in New York City.

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    He offered to reveal everything he knew about Tammany Hall in exchange for a parole.

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    Soon, him and his boys were“campaigning” for Tammany Hall candidates, making sure the right people got elected.

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    Meanwhile, the Tammany politicians were building an enormous base of support by organizing immigrants into a voting bloc.

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    As state senator, he supported the legislative charter of new savings banks headed by himself and other Tammany politicians.

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    Additionally, many of the players(if not all) were city officials and had political affiliations with the notorious Tammany Hall.

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    This explains why one of the team's major financial backers was Tammany Hall leader and the most powerful man in New York, William“Boss” Tweed.

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    Boss Tweed was a democratic politician and was, for a time, the leader of Tammany Hall, a New York City Democratic Party political organization.

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    Tammany Hall continued to control much of New York City politics till the 1920s, and it was still influential in local politics into the 1960s.

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    But when civil service reforms eliminated patronage and welfare became a function of government instead of social clubs, average people didn't need organizations like Tammany Hall anymore.

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    The Democrat candidate, Al Smith, on the other hand, suffered criticism for his anti-prohibitionist stance, and the legacy of corruption of Tammany Hall(a political machine that long dominated New York City politics) with which he was associated.

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    Before you know it, Tweed was captain of his local fire company- and was busily building a power base in Tammany- and then in the Demo cratic Party, which got him elected as a city alderman in 1851.

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    Once he would worked his way to the top of Tammany, becoming its grand sachem, Tweed bribed officials and openly bought votes to put his cronies into nearly every elected and appointed office in the city and the state.

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    Democrat Grover Cleveland became the United States' 22nd President in 1884 due to support from middle class voters over his battles with Tammany Hall, his reformist mantra of hard work, merit, and efficiency, and the support of the New York state voters.

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