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...private selection of Tammany Chieftain James J. Dooling, was by no means acceptable to many an old-line Tammany leader. Worse still, Tammany had been let down by the leaders of New York City's four other boroughs, who had selected an opposition candidate in the person of Grover Aloysius Whalen, thus diminishing Tammany's otherwise fair chance of recovering the City Hall held for the last four years by Fusion Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, Aug. 2). Then Leader Dooling died and Tammany Hall perked up. In hope and harmony, expecting that a new Tammany chief would succeed...
Last week Tammany Hall was down in the dumps again. First off, Christy Sullivan, instead of doing what he was expected to do, announced that Senator Copeland was still his nominee to ride Tammany's Tiger. Then Grover Whalen withdrew, not in the interests of unity, but to make way for a stronger opposition candidate...
Meanwhile, impeccably dressed Grover Whalen returned to his comfortable duties as head of New York's 1939 World's Fair. Candidate Mahoney declared: "I am no man's man." Candidate Copeland sniffed: ''These shufflings do not concern me." Candidate LaGuardia, already Fusion's and American Labor Party's choice and still waiting for a friendly nod from the Republicans, said nothing...
...going away on a year's leave-of-absence, maybe a dozen years, to give himself time to think about progress & politics, whether to get out of their jumpy wake or try to catch up with them. He will probably consult with his melancholy colleague, James Grover Thurber, who is now in Europe sending back an occasional piece to The New Yorker...
...Grover Whalen and his supporters are just as placid in their own conviction of success. Where, they ask, in any great American city has a man without a machine succeeded in beating a machine? Only Dr. Copeland is perhaps without such placid assurance. The strength he musters must come from a battered Tammany machine, and from the antis-anti-LaGuardia, anti-New Dealers-a vote whose total is problematic. If Grover Whalen wins it will be an historic election. It will mean the end of Tammany as the machine in New York City politics. Barbaric conquerors from the provinces will...