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...Hulan Jack, state assemblyman and former Manhattan borough president...
Wagner first exercised his new political muscle last week in the scrap over a replacement for Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack. De Sapio seemed to have that election in his pocket. But when Wagner began to remind reluctant councilmen of the patronage at his command, he had surprisingly little trouble. Wagner's choice, Judge Edward Richard Dudley, onetime Ambassador to Liberia (the U.S.'s first Negro ambassador), won the showdown vote in the council...
...still hesitating-a maneuver in which he excels-and the best he had been able to manage was a limp "Yes, there is a rift." Adding to his troubles was Wagner's inability to decide on a man to fill Manhattan's borough presidency, automatically vacated when Hulan Jack was convicted and received a suspended sentence on charges of conflict of interest and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Still hesitating, Wagner postponed an election meeting with Manhattan councilmen, using the weather as an excuse. Outcome of this week's snow-checked meeting, with both Wagner and De Sapio...
Specifically, the jury found Hulan Jack guilty of 1) permitting one Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the city, and 2) later conspiring with Sydney Ungar to conceal the facts from the law. An earlier trial had resulted in a hung jury...
Last week's verdict presumably marked the end of a long and tortuous trail for Hulan Jack. A teen-aged immigrant from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, he began his career at the end of a mop handle, as janitor for the Peerless Paper