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The spectators led by a group called SOC'M (Save Our City Manager)-carried signs reading "Keep Tammany Hall Out of Cambridge," and "Professionalism Not Politics." During the evening, several spectators shouted at anti-Sullivan councillors, who replied in kind.
TAKEN individually, some of the book's sections are partially successful. On His Own does a good job analyzing Kenned's involvement in New York state polities. Author William vanden Heuval knows Tammany well: he ran against John Lindsay for Congress in 1960 and was a candidate for governor this...
When the law finally jailed Boss Tweed, the Tammany Hall czar gave his occupation as "statesman." His successor many times removed, Carmine De Sapio, was more modest when he testified recently in his own defense. Known as "The Bishop" in his glory days, De Sapio called himself an "ex-political...
When De Sapio took over the Manhattan Democratic organization 21 years ago, he was a progressive innovator. He led in nominating good-government candidates like Robert Wagner for mayor and Averell Harriman for Governor. He broke the Irish monopoly that had previously ruled Tammany. The Bishop liberalized organization rules to...
It takes an effort of mind to recall the time, not so very long ago, when America was still something like a collection of small towns, and a provincial newspaperman named Henry Louis Mencken was its national cracker-barrel atheist. It is, moreover, a matter for wonder that Mencken, who...