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National Net. The announcement was carefully timed to keep Harriman unbruised by primary fights, and make the most of his powerful connections. For months Harriman and his handlers, led by Tammany Hall Chief Carmine De Sapio, have been preparing for this phase of the campaign. They have had the welcome...
With a delicacy rare in hard-fought elections, the ballyhoo men in the wagons that roved through Rangoon's streets all one night last week apologized humbly for disturbing the voters' sleep. But their loudspeakers kept on blaring just the same, extolling hour after hour the virtues of...
With fist, boot, pistol and general finagling, he made his way through New York's Tammany Hall, took on a doxy named Fanny White, whom he found in a brothel, earned the enmity of Editor James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Bennett called him "Aunfit" for a...
¶ Carmine De Sapio, Tammany boss and Harriman's right hand man, added: "A country-club quartet-a small clique of self-appointed and self-anointed men who have never exposed themselves to the mandate of a national election-now rules the White House and runs our nation. These...
At the edge of the post-Minnesota vacuum, one Democrat loomed larger than ever before. He is New York's Governor Averell Harriman, the New Dealing multimillionaire with wide experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a...