Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Empire State's meadows and mountains were greening into summer, Democrats were preening with unqualified exuberance. In the fight for the statehouse, they had an unquestionable advantage, i.e., they held it already. Four years ago Multimillionaire W. Averell Harriman hit the hustings after two decades of public service, squeaked in as Governor by 11,125 votes. Harriman was stopped cold in his attempt to parlay the post into a 1956 Democratic nomination for President. So he decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them...
...wonderful!" He has a sense of humor about his own wealth. Walking down a Brooklyn street recently, he found a dime, stuffed it in his pocket, said: "This is like carrying coals to Newcastle." His favorite promise and a proven laugh-getter: "I'd like to give Averell Harriman a run for his money...
...York City, but Harriman's solicitude for upstate Democrats has paid off. In normally Republican districts the party is newly strong. In 1957, for the first time, New York elected more Democratic mayors than Republican; Democrats also won control of seven more city councils...
Debts & Disgust. In winning the G.O.P. nomination, Rockefeller hardly worked up a perspiration. But with Averell Harriman as his opponent, the race is all uphill. Not only is the Governor well entrenched in traditionally Democratic...
King, still conscious and calm, was rushed to the Harlem Hospital with the letter opener still in his chest, was soon followed by a score or so of well-wishers and Negro leaders. Also present: fleet-footed Governor Averell Harriman, who was campaigning for re-election in the city when he heard the news. Two and a quarter hours after King was taken to the operating room, a surgeon announced that the blade, narrowly missing the critical aorta near the heart, had been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders...