Tammany in a sentence

In addition to this traffic death, Louisiana State Police Troop L troopers ended up investigating a traffic death that happened on I-12 near Highway 1077 in St. Tammany Parish.

Corcoran got involved in local politics in Tammany Hall and enlisted as a private in the New York militia.

St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper estimated that hundreds more homes were damaged outside the city.

Bernie Sanders, and even more so Tulsi Gabbard, have been systematically rigged out of the “Democratic” Party’s contest, right down to the good old Tammany Hall counting (or not counting) of their votes.

The Democrats and their patronage systems, like Tammany Hall in New York and Richard Daley’s machine in Chicago, set some dismal precedents.

The fire began Sunday afternoon on Mount Tammany, a steep, rugged area of New Jersey's Worthington State Forest and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border.

He taught in St. Tammany, Plaquemines and St. James Parishes and at Sequim High School, Sequim, Wash.

The Slidell Police Department’s public information officer, Daniel Seuzeneau, who has prior experience operating with “Live PD” through his time with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, will be working closely with the film crew and producer.

A flamboyant politician, he was a liberal Democrat and part of the powerful Tammany Hall machine.

Although he held numerous important public offices and was one of a handful of senior leaders of Tammany Hall, as well as the state legislature and the state Democratic Party, Tweed was never the sole "boss" of New York City.

Because many anti-Catholics used these issues as a cover for their religious prejudices, Smith's campaign had difficulty denouncing anti-Catholicism as bigotry without offending others who favored Prohibition or disliked Tammany's corruption.

Breaking with Tammany in 1907, Hearst ran for mayor of New York City under a third party of his own creation, the Municipal Ownership League ).

But this rather lackluster address was eclipsed by the seconding speech of Edward S. Bragg of Wisconsin, who roused the delegates with a memorable slap at Tammany.

By 1853, Tweed was running the seventh ward for Tammany.

During these war years, Roosevelt worked to make peace with the Tammany Hall forces, and in 1918 the group supported others in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to run for governor of New York.

Evaluations In depictions of Tweed and the Tammany Hall organization, historians have emphasized the thievery and conspiratorial nature of Boss Tweed, along with lining his own pockets and those of his friends and allies.

Evidence in Louis Pizzitola's book Hearst Over Hollywood indicates that Millicent's mother Hannah Willson ran a Tammany -connected and protected brothel near the headquarters of political power in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.

For their part, the Tammany men tried to prolong the convention until the hotel bills were beyond the means of the outlanders; the Smith backers also attempted to stampede the delegates by packing the galleries with noisy rooters.

Green loosened the purse strings again, allowing city departments not under Tammany control to borrow money to operate.

Hearst's last bid for office came in 1922 when he was backed by Tammany Hall leaders for the U.S. Senate nomination in New York.