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Mississippi Rumbles. Powell was elected to the New York City Council in 1941, and three years later ascended to Congress from a district 90% Negro. He was-and he remains-unbeatable. When he rejected the Democratic ticket in 1956 to support Dwight Eisenhower, and when Tammany Hall dumped him, the...
¶ In New York City, two of the party's toughest old pros, Pennsylvania Governor David Lawrence and Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, held a high powwow (also present: onetime Illinois Kingmaker Jake Arvey) dedicated to the proposition that primaries are eyewash. De Sapio, like his good friend Harry...
"Hulan Jack is not cleared," proclaimed the New York Times, and with rare editorial unanimity New York's newspapers last week agreed in lambasting the return of Tammany Hall's Hulan Jack to his job as Manhattan Borough president-from which he had suspended himself two months before...
But what brought Jack back was a far cry from a final determination. The indictment against him was dismissed on technical grounds by Judge Gerald Patrick Culkin, a second-generation Tammany wheelhorse. The indictment, ruled Judge Culkin, was defective because, under New York law, the conspiracy charge should have been...
Visibly angered, District Attorney Hogan immediately asked the Appellate Court to reverse the decision. Jack's lawyer, Carson Baker, hinted darkly that Ho gan was pursuing the case "because Mr. Jack ... is black." The suggestion was too much for even the professionally liberal, race-sensitive New York Post. "We...