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Often hailed as a symbol of democracy at work, Manhattan's Borough President Hulan Jack is a better symbol of big-city Democratic politics at work. West Indies-born Jack rose from janitor to vice president of a paperbox company, tied his political ambitions to Tammany Hall and the rising power of Manhattan's 400,000 Negroes. Elected to the state assembly seven times, Jack was tapped by Tammany in 1953 for the borough presidency, was elected, and re-elected four years later. As the highest paid ($25,000) Negro municipal officeholder...
...take the stand at the trial. But Operator Ungar, granted immunity from selfincrimination, testified that Jack had suggested the table-money story. And ex-Housing Czar Robert Moses repeated what he told the grand jury: that he had approved Ungar's slum-clearance project after learning that Borough President Jack was "obligated...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan went off to the summit. British voters gave him an unmistakable vote of confidence. In local elections for borough offices throughout England and Wales, his Conservative Party rolled up a gain of 426 seats (out of 3.519 at stake). The Liberals gained 51 seats. Big loser: Labor, whose net loss of 460 seats reflected the policy quarrels that have racked the party since its third straight defeat by the Tories in last October's general elections...
...Hulan Jack is not cleared," proclaimed the New York Times, and with rare editorial unanimity New York's newspapers last week agreed in lambasting the return of Tammany Hall's Hulan Jack to his job as Manhattan Borough president-from which he had suspended himself two months before. Of Manhattan Borough's 1,800,000 resident citizens, the only people who seemed happy were Jack himself and a clutch of political underlings who greeted him in his office with spring blossoms, cheers and a big sign: WELCOME BACK, MR. PRESIDENT. Said Hulan Jack: "I'm just...
...decision. Jack's lawyer, Carson Baker, hinted darkly that Ho gan was pursuing the case "because Mr. Jack ... is black." The suggestion was too much for even the professionally liberal, race-sensitive New York Post. "We venture to guess," said a bleak Post editorial, "that a white Tammany borough president would almost surely have been the subject of a state removal hearing by now if he had admitted as much as Jack. The unhappy fact is that there is an undercurrent of racism in reverse . . ." In the midst of a rising demand that he suspend Jack and start permanent...