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Preceding Benton on the program were two New York State politicians, Carmine G. DeSapio, N.Y. Secretary of State, and head of Tammany Hall, the new York Country Democratic organization; and Jacob K. Javits, Attorney General of N.Y., and a leading Republican.
The principle political role of Tammany Hall in pre-New Deal days, DeSapio claimed, was that of "making food and clothing available to indigent people; giving them free legal advice, and in every other possible way lending aid and comfort t the voters in order to secure their support, on...
DeSapio, besides being Tammany Hall leader, is also the New York Secretary of State.
Trainloads of party stalwarts from New York City rolled into Albany for Harriman's inauguration. Hotels were jammed with the jubilant and the job-hungry, come to celebrate or supplicate. Hotel parties went on all through the New Year weekend. The biggest: a cocktail party for several hundred people...
He began with a success so small that his predecessors would have been humiliated to stoop to it. Forming a coalition with Republicans, he ousted Red-lining Vito Marcantonio from his congressional seat. But De Sapio also took another step -and fell flat on his face. In the 1950 mayoralty...