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Preceding Benton on the program were two New York State politicians, Carmine G. DeSapio, N.Y. Secretary of State, and head of Tammany Hall, the new York Country Democratic organization; and Jacob K. Javits, Attorney General of N.Y., and a leading Republican...
Carmine G. DeSapio, Jacob K. Javits, and William Benton will speak at the Law School forum on "Ethics in Politics" at 8 o'clock tonight in Sanders Theater. The moderator will be David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Law School...
...DeSapio, besides being Tammany Hall leader, is also the New York Secretary of State...
They thus bested the Northern city bosses: Tammany Hall's Carmine DeSapio, Chicago's Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...
...Rayburn arrived late at the meeting, found Butler in the lead, and urged that the election be postponed for two months. DeSapio, Arvey, Lawrence & Co. applauded this suggestion. But the committeemen, feeling their oats, resented it and pressed for a vote...