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Tammany Hall

(ˈtæmənɪ)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics US the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county. Originally founded as a benevolent society (Tammany Society) in 1789, Tammany Hall was notorious for the corruption in city and state politics that it fostered in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Also called: Tammany

ˈTammanyism n

ˈTammanyite n

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Tam′ma•ny Hall′

(ˈtæm ə ni)
n.

a Democratic political organization in New York City, founded in 1789 as a fraternal society (Tam′many Soci`ety) and associated with corruption and abuse of power. Also called Tam′ma•ny.

[after Tammany, 17th-century Delaware Indian chief, facetiously canonized as patron saint of America, c1770]

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Tammany Hall - a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

Tammany, Tammany Society

organization, organisation - a group of people who work together

Democratic Party - the older of two major political parties in the United States

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O'Sullivan has had a telephone message to go down to Tammany Hall."

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She crumpled up like a can that has been kicked by a heavy boot, her forepart came down in the square, and the rest of her length, with a great snapping and twisting of shafts and stays, descended, collapsing athwart Tammany Hall and the streets towards Second Avenue.

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Earlier decades, too, witnessed historic electoral battles over cleaning up (https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Um7nAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PR13&ots=DDO0pV0ZiW&dq=Tammany+Hall+history&lr=&pg=PR13&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tammany%20Hall%20history&f=false) Tammany Hall  and (https://books.google.co.in/books?id=_SKbzXqmawoC&lpg=PR9&ots=jszfyGd6fA&dq=Jim+Crow&lr=&pg=PR9&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Jim%20Crow&f=false) Jim Crow laws  in America.

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