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...capon, and plenty of champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there. Margaret Truman begged off singing The Star Spangled Banner at both dinners because she had laryngitis...
Until last week, Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn's machine had controlled the 24th District with professional ease. In 1946 Flynn sent his man to Congress with better than 15,000 votes over his nearest opponent, the American Labor Party candidate. Then Flynn's Congressman moved up to the New York Supreme Court bench and a special election was called to fill his seat...
Almost perfunctorily, Boss Flynn picked a middle-aged lawyer named Karl Propper, who looks a little like Movie Comic Hugh Herbert. Democratic chieftains, watching the A.L.P. splinter over the Wallace third-party candidacy, figured Propper as a shoo-in. Republicans merely went through the motions: they nominated an unknown building contractor and the G.O.P. boss left town for a Florida vacation...
Bronx political boss Edward J. Flynn and leading Congressional figures Charles A. Halleck and Helen Gahagan Douglas are among the speakers who will appear before the Law School Forum this spring, President George Esser, Jr. 3L announced yesterday...
...term program will get underway Friday, February 20, with the first forum, "Russian-American Relations," for which no speakers have been secured to date. Three weeks later, Flynn and columnist Robert S. Allen will debate "Should Political Machines Be Abolished...