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But in helping to found Manhattan's Riverside Democrats in the mid-fifties, Ryan made reform his central issue. In a state whose Democratic tradition embraces both Franklin Roosevelt and Carmine De Sapio, the question of honest, representative government is anything but abstract. The men Tammany Hall was shuttling into...
U.N. Crusader. It was not. She con tinued her column, wrote 15 books, conducted regular programs on radio and television, supported Adlai Stevenson at the Democratic conventions of 1952, 1956 and 1960. In all of these efforts her gentle manner concealed a fighting spirit. She had a way of infuriating...
He was much impressed by the fact that Rockefeller in 1958 had been hugely helped by New York City's normally Democratic Jewish voters. To win back that vote in 1962, Harris argued, the Democrats needed a Jewish candidate to run against Rocky. Up went a trial balloon for...
¶ New York's Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 51, son of a German immigrant who became a U.S. Senator, rules over 250,000 city employees and nearly 8,000,000 citizens with a mixture of detachment and passionate involvement. Democrat Bob Wagner has won three terms as mayor under two...
But Mr. Weinberg has no real support even among these men; he offends everyone he talks to. In any event, the fare-rise is not the crucial problem, as noted. So Mr. Mahoney, with a crudity no one outside Albany could possibly imitate, is simply trying to make political hay...