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Off to the Fight. Another Democrat whose prospects take on a different shape is New York's Governor Averell Harriman. Although he has publicly insisted that he is for Stevenson, the fact that Harriman is a candidate is not in doubt. Early last week New York State Chairman Michael...
A terrific article on Tammany Hall and its history . . .
Carmine De Sapio's professed disassociation with the mobster elements around Tammany came as no surprise; that TIME should print it was a surprise. Of course, if De Sapio is on the level, then TIME did the public a service with its cover story . . .
So Carmine has to get out of being in the next room to Costello! Well, for at least five years, and maybe ten, Costello and his ilk were running Tammany . . .
. . . Carmine De Sapio spends ". . . hours each day in his national committeeman's headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel." On Mondays and Fridays he ". . . holds court ... in Tammany Hall." He "averages a dozen speeches a week . . . He politicks at his kitchen table from 8 a.m. and all the while he is...