tammany in English

noun
1
a powerful organization within the Democratic Party that was widely associated with corruption. Founded as a fraternal and benevolent society in 1789, it came to dominate political life in New York City in the 19th and early 20th centuries, before being reduced in power by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early 1930s.

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3. Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants.

4. Tweed is known for the cronyism of his Tammany Hall political machine, through which he Bilked the city of New York of massive sums of money.

5. There was a better hand across the table, held by a pugnacious Irish youth, who was a political hanger-on of the Tammany district in which they were located.

6. One of the main reasons for this was the lack of interest from the Tammany Hall political machine, which was the largest political force in New York at the time.

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