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Last week Democrats held their state convention at Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, to choose a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator. They needed a man of stature to beat popular, liberal Republican Irving Ives (just renominated by the G.O.P.), and to keep Ike Eisenhower from carrying the state in November...
Cashmere's nomination immediately ran into trouble, i.e., that peculiar New York political institution, the Liberal Party. Core of the Liberal Party is Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but...
A Tammany politician who once threatened to sue a newspaper for libel was advised by his lawyer: "Never sue. They might prove it on you." Last week in Nanticoke, Pa. (pop. 20,160) another politician proved the wisdom of this advice. Until he ran for mayor, Anthony B. Dreier, a...
He struck out at the evils of Prohibition, which he pictured as "Mr. Dry," a sniveling, psalm-singing, bluenosed personification of cant and bigotry. When the Ku Klux Klan invaded the Midwest in the '20s, Kirby flayed its leaders mercilessly. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, the last in 1928...
† In 1932, Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee of New York polled 232,501 write-in votes after a vigorous press campaign against Tammany Hall. But Tammanyite John P. O'Brien was elected with 1,056,115 votes. In 1944, Tom Dewey received 146,706 write-ins in the...