Civil rights rhetoric by itself was no match for a patronage machine that could appear in blackface when it needed to.

But the small-government rhetoric was never sincere: from Day 1, the administration set out to create a vast new patronage machine.

Farley, and the administration's patronage machine he presided over, helped to fuel the social and infrastructure programs of the New Deal.

Farley masterfully used the patronage machine to line up support for the New Deal's liberal programs.

But critics accuse him of building a personal patronage machine to replace Communism.

Each congressman commands a political patronage machine that the old ward bosses would have envied.

Bankruptcy, even for the venerable political patronage machines run by Histadrut, the labor federation, is now a real threat.

Turner found out that Mulroney was allegedly setting up a patronage machine in anticipation of victory.

Originally founded as a home for anti-Communists, it mutated over the years into a patronage machine.

Because the city qualified for a range of grants for the needy, the patronage machine grew stronger.