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...degree in his pocket, he spent the summer of 1925 on his first & only trip to Europe (London, Paris, Brussels), returned to enter the Manhattan law firm of Larkin, Rathbone & Perry. At the same time he jumped into local politics, worked his way up from Republican doorbell-pusher to precinct captain. He was a 29-year-old, $8,000-a-year law assistant with McNamara & Seymour when he was called into public life as chief assistant to the U.S. Attorney...
Included in the school's curriculum are publicity and financing techniques, planning and running campaigns, and methods of influencing legislatures. The faculty will lay stress on ward and precinct organization, and political action through trade unions...
School enrollment has been limited to 500, and, after one large plenary session, the enrollees will be broken up into smaller "workshop" groups covering five topics: ward and precinct organization; how to plan a successful campaign; how to work effectively through community organizations; how to attack a political issue; and political action through trade unions...
Farley and Mead took their seats in silence. But Herbert Lehman, when he heard that he was down with the precinct captains, hustled over to Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and informed him curtly that he considered himself affronted. Then, with Mrs. Lehman on his arm, he swept out. Chortled the Daily News next day: "Is it possible that the Democratic Party is split by even more dissensions, feuds, and hatreds than appear on the surface...
...energetic publisher of the Denver Post, backed him editorially. So, to Denver's surprise, did the Post's archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...