Word: tammanyizing
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That evening Rockefeller sat with his brothers in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, watched the public's verdict roll up a smashing 450,000-plus victory. Rockefeller captured upstate Buffalo by 5,500 votes where Harriman had won by 10,600 in 1954, carried Schenectady County by a bigger...
Meanwhile, the Democrats, with too many candidates, were having their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either...
In the first few days after the convention, it appeared that DeSapio had won the battle, but might very well have lost the election. Keating and Rockefeller immediately assailed Hogan as the tool of Tammany; the liberal wing of the Democratic Party expressed resentment; the Liberal Party (whose 200,000...
The Republicans have dropped the Tammany issue, for they probably discovered that the ogre of Tammany Hall was a real menace only to convinced Republicans and that harping on the issue would just alienate independent voters. At the same time, they have failed to hit hard at Hogan's chief...
Because he bolted two years ago to support Dwight Eisenhower, Harlem's seven term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was read out of the Democratic Party and replaced on Tammany Hall's primary slate by a loyal Democrat. But last week Powell was invited back along a flower...