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Throughout the crime commission's first sessions, Luchese remained a shadowy figure, little more than a name, as the commission flailed away at an old but far from dead horse: underworld influence in Tammany Hall, the nerve center of Manhattan's ailing Democratic organization. Some of its findings...
L Daniel Neustein, another former district leader, testified that Tammanyites frequently referred to Costello as "the Boss." Neustein also said that when he expressed his ambition to become a judge, onetime Tammany Boss Clarence Neal told him: "Well, there's no reason why you can't if you...
The pre-New Deal taproots of the Democratic Party lay in Appomattox and Castle Garden. Appomattox* was the Southern loathing of Republicanism which was bred in Reconstruction days. Castle Garden was New York City's famed immigration station through which passed the millions who were politically organized in the...
Cashmore does not even have the support of a disgruntled Liberal Party, which was ready to campaign vigorously for Harriman. Dissatisfied with Cashmore, the Liberals nominated George S. Counts, a professor of education at Columbia. The four to five hundred thousand votes that the Liberals are thus pulling from Cashmore...
In 1943, Helvering was succeeded by Robert Hannegan of St. Louis, a close personal friend of Truman and a politician who prided himself on not being rude to other politicians. Hannegan was only in the office four months. (He went on to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Postmaster...