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...Queens Leader James A. Roe, Brooklyn's Kenneth Sutherland and Staten Island's Jeremiah A. Sullivan insisted on nominating Impellitteri. De Sapio and Congressman Charles A. Buckley, representing Flynn, refused to go along with them, then carried the fight into a hotel corridor, where reporters overheard the end. Yelled Leader Buckley, "You are wrecking the Democratic Party!" Snapped Leader Roe, "You might as well go out on 42nd Street. We're going to stop you sabotaging the party...
...mocking echoes haply overheard...
...extreme extrovert-but one with a feeling for what the other fellow is thinking." Translated into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm...
...days later, at the capital's airport waiting for the arrival of Queen Juliana, McGrath was seen in tense debate with Harry Truman and Presidential Aide Joseph Short. Snatches of talk were overheard...
...visit homes and explain to housewives that if everybody would get along with a little less, shortages would soon pass and Argentina's economy would be saved. She also urged vigilance against those "traitors" who blamed the shortages on the government. "I advise that note be made of overheard conversations," she said. "I advocate using an espionage system such as that which Japanese embassies used to employ...