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The only blemish on an otherwise happy Democratic evening was the enthusiastic booing of Carmine De Sapio, Tammany Hall boss and National Committeeman, who was introduced for a brief talk before Stevenson arrived. The cause: a conviction among the nonprofessionals in the Stevenson camp that the Democratic organization in New...
Just Two Left. At six, he earned his first dollar as a page boy in the state senate, where his father already was writing a record of social legislation that later served as model for the New Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White...
Dollars to Democrats. When Bob Wagner, as a boy, was hobnobbing with New York's great and near-great, Jack Javits was a skinny-legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin...
Years later (after nearly working himself to death-as a candy-store delivery boy, lithographic-supply salesman, bill collector-while going through high school and New York University Law School), it came time for Jack Javits to make his own decision about party affiliation. He remembered how his father had...
Pencils to Literates. By 1946, after his discharge as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's chemical-warfare branch, Jack Javits had made enough of a name as a promising young Republican lawyer to be offered the party's nomination for Congress from Manhattan's 21st District...