Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York State Democratic convention in Buffalo, where De Sapio clearly came out on top as the new strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly, in the five-day catfight he came out the conqueror of Governor Averell Harriman (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955). At the same time, New York Republicans held a two-day love feast, nominated Nelson A. Rockefeller for Governor, and got set for an election rivaled in national interest only by the fight for California's governorship. For the stories, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rocky in Rochester...
...five of the most furious, fantastic days and nights in New York's political history, Democratic leaders in Buffalo fought, shoved, shouted and wept-and came perilously close to kicking away their campaign before it even got started. With Governor Averell Harriman an uncontested shoo-in for renomination, the brawl came on the nomination of a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The ultimate nominee: New York County's five-term District Attorney Frank Hogan, 56. The real winner in the party fracas: New York County's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, after a polished display...
Remarkably, in his attempt to dictate the senatorial nomination, Harriman was licked before he began-and almost everybody knew it but Ave. His inability to grasp the political facts of life kept the convention fight raging for days in hotel corridors, suites and lobbies. The log of one of the wildest of all New York political conventions...
...first market corner in several decades occurred on Wall Street and caught short sellers in a classic trap-without stock to deliver unless they paid fantastic prices. The corner was nothing like those when Morgan and Harriman battled for the Northern Pacific, gobbling up so much stock that shorts had to bid Northern Pacific from $170 to $1,000 in one day. But it was bad enough. In a single day, the stock of E. L .Bruce Co., a small Memphis hardwood flooring manufacturer, jumped $100 a share after the American Stock Exchange ruled that short sellers had to cover...
...flamboyantly waving hand. Yet Adam Powell is the living rebuttal to the notion that actions speak louder than words-and last week he proved it again. In his roughest political fight, bitterly opposed by Manhattan's Tammany Hall and New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. swamped Democratic primary opponent Earl Brown, a New York City councilman, by 14,837 to 4,935 votes, won certain re-election to the House...