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Last year Sihanouk abdicated the throne, became his own Premier and promulgated a brave pro-Western anti-Communist policy. But after a Tammany-style general election (which he won 100%), Sihanouk found the responsibilities of the premiership niggling, and appointed himself a kind of freewheeling plenipotentiary of foreign affairs.
The Feb. 13 picture of "Mr. Democrat" was most appropriate. It used to be Pendergast peering over Truman's shoulder; now it's Tammany Hall's Boss De Sapio. All are of the same ilk and bilk. When Truman complains, "We have lost heavily among the millions...
Italy's government published its annual honors list, elevated several prominent U.S. citizens to its five-year-old Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Among them: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, named to the order's highest rank, Knight of the Grand Cross; Tammany Boss...
No one knew this better than "inactive" Candidate Averell Harriman and his politically wise advisers, including Tammany Hall Sachem Carmine De Sapio, and this week they made the most of it. Appearing on a radio panel show, Harriman jumped in with both feet. He 1) defended the Powell amendment, and...
From the Tammany Tigers to the Pendergasts and Kellys and Crumps, the lore of the bosses had them as displaying their real inner benevolence by handing out Christmas food baskets and helping poor widows. These things they did, but in quest of power, not out of kindness. To a lavish...