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Promised Purge. New York's Democratic Party has been torn asunder since the state convention of 1958. Principal ripper was National Committeeman Carmine Gerard De Sapio, the dark-spectacled Tammany Hall sachem who outraged most fellow Democrats and voters by dictating the selection of the party's candidate for the U.S. Senate race, New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan. After Hogan and other Democrats were clobbered, bands of anti-De Sapio reformers in New York City clustered around aging Eleanor Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert Lehman, and former Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin-letter (who had been done...
This year the local Democratic organization is Balkanized -the Eleanor Roosevelt rebels do not talk to Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio and the other organization regulars-but all sides heaved together under Kennedy direction to ring out a record 3,622,000 registration of voters. Compared with 1956, registration is up 40,000 in The Bronx, 58,000 in Manhattan, 105,000 in Brooklyn's Kings County, all of which went for Stevenson. Yet the greatest gain of all, 115,000, came in Queens, which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1936. Politicos figure that...
...company with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio and other worthies, Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred...
Pacifying Guerrillas. For two years, New York's Democratic Party has been in a state of civil war, with the embattled regulars (Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, State Chairman Mike Prendergast) under heavy attack from such guerrillas as the reform liberals (headed by ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Thomas K. Finletter), disgruntled Negro groups (oriented toward Representative Adam Clayton Powell), and the traditionally anti-Tammany Liberal Party...
Making his Manhattan rounds, from a 9 a.m. appointment at Gracie Mansion with Mayor Robert Wagner, to lunch at Hampshire House with Prendergast and De Sapio, to a sundown session in Lehman's Park Avenue apartment, to a midnight dinner with Anthony Akers, perennial candidate for Congress in the rich, Republican, silk-stocking district of Manhattan, Bobby left no faction unfaced. His approach was friendly but firm...