NEW YORK: Right Arm Off

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Last week in Manhattan Tammany Hall uncorked some of its long-bottled dislike of New Deal operations in New York State. From potent Tammanyite Daniel Florence Cohalan to State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley went a tart letter inquiring how on earth he justified a third term for Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. "Can it be," asked this Catholic onetime State Supreme Court Justice, ". . . because he is a Jew? . . . If, in order to give Roosevelt a chance to carry New York ... he and you must appoint a...

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