Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the Democrats, with too many candidates, were having their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
...first few days after the convention, it appeared that DeSapio had won the battle, but might very well have lost the election. Keating and Rockefeller immediately assailed Hogan as the tool of Tammany; the liberal wing of the Democratic Party expressed resentment; the Liberal Party (whose 200,000 votes had been decisive in electing Harriman in 1954) endorsed Hogan only reluctantly and refused to support Crotty...
...Joseph Barr, 40, who is helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling Huntington County Lawyer J. Edward Roush...
...This year the Democrats themselves have unleashed the specter of a Tammany Hall that calls the shots even for the Governor: at the August state convention, Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio humbled Harriman, rumbled through his own personal choice for the U.S. Senate nomination, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan (TIME, Sept. 8). Harlem's powerful Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many a New York bloc, e.g., Negroes, plus...
Alfred, who has a half-Irish background, drew the idea for his play from stories told him during his childhood. He hopes to have "Hogan's Goat" produced off-Broadway, and New York producers will attend the concert readings of the play. Jerome Kilty will produce the Sanders performance...