NOUN
- 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
How To Use Tammany Hall In A Sentence
- Before the Civil War, boxing enjoyed a brief vogue in New York, where fighters often associated with the Tammany Hall machine rose to prominence.
- The district leaders are were all the Sachems of Tammany Hall, and the members of Tammany were called the Tammany Braves, and they would parade around town with war paint on. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
- _The History of Tammany Hall. _ 2d ed.rev. and enl. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
- Fred Siegel, a historian at the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, has written of the "New Tammany Hall," which he describes as the incestuous alliance between public officials and labor. NYT > Home Page
- At the dawn of the 20th century, New York had been run for more than a generation by the corrupt Democratic political machine known as Tammany Hall. TIME.com: Top Stories
