Word: tammanyizing
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As the 1956 campaign rolled into its preliminary stages, Democrats continued to dispute whether their line for 1956 should or should not follow the moderate tone sounded by Adlai Stevenson. But what would the line be if it were not moderate? New York's Governor Averell Harriman had a...
Before 300 political writers at a National Press Club lunch in Washington, Carmine De Sapio discussed foreign and economic policy at a level never before scaled by a boss of Tammany Hall. While Republicans could point to plenty of holes in the speech, it was capable campaign debating. On the...
When Tammany Boss De Sapio was through crediting the Democrats with all of the good and the Republicans with all of the bad, many reporters at the National Press Club agreed that he had cut and laid out what might well become the pattern for the Democratic campaign of 1956...
But let anyone say that this means he is not a candidate, and Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, Harriman's secretary of state and political mastermind, gently but firmly weaves that word "active" back into the sentence.
Some active primary races between Adlai Stevenson and Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver would suit the Harriman strategists just fine. There has been so much buzzing about this in Democratic Party circles that Oregon's Democratic State Chairman Howard Morgan exploded: "Harriman and Tammany money will be routed...