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With his famed Bintel Brief (Bundle of Letters), he started a lovelorn column. Circulation zoomed. The Forward became such a power that by 1918 it was able to break Tammany's hold on Manhattan's lower East Side, elect Socialist Meyer London to Congress.
Bill O'Dwyer was forever denouncing Tammany Hall, which the late Fiorello La Guardia had all but smashed, but when election time came around, he would be found, cozy in the corner of the Tammany tiger. Recently, ex-Cop O'Dwyer disturbed many a New Yorker by denouncing...
New Yorkers into realizing they were about to lose a first-rate governor. As the only presidential candidate the Republicans have ever renominated after his failure to make it the first time, Dewey had missed the White House; he had been too assured, his personality did not charm the voters...
Just Looking. When he is asked for advice on how to become the publisher of a great paper, Arthur Sulzberger always amiably replies: "Do as I did-marry the boss's daughter." But his remark is not in the Times tradition of fairness; Sulzberger did much more to earn...
Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his...