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Pittenger hails from Phillips Exeter Academy and Oettinger attended the Bronx High School of Science...
Situation: Precarious. The talk easily turned to politics. The President admitted that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn and New York State Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick had paid a super-secret call to discuss the New York political situation, and insisted that they had left happy. Reporters learned later that Flynn had shown the President an advance copy of a resolution he introduced at a meeting of New York's convention delegates, in which Truman's domestic policy was praised and his Palestine policy damned. The delegates themselves were uninstructed; the New York situation was unsettled at best...
...article "What Now, What Next." Their discussion, however, adds little to Mr. Hersh's story, except for the dogma that the Wallace Third Party is the only "genuine alternative to war, depression, and fascism." Al Gold gives an interesting picture of the powerful Isacson campaign in "Victory in the Bronx," although his implication that, with "proper" organization, Wallace will sweep the nation in November seems unjustified on the grounds of the New York test alone...
Isacson recently overthrew Boss Flynn's machine to win a special Congressional election in the Bronx...
...York's Representative Leo Isacson, American Laborite who won a Bronx by-election in February with the backing of Henry Wallace, wanted to go to Paris to attend a conference on aid for the Greek guerrillas. He would go as an observer for the American Council for a Democratic Greece, a Communist-front organization. Since the council is opposed to the U.S. policy of aiding the established Greek government, said State, issuance of a passport would not be "in the interests...