In Congress, the little man who wasn't there is white-haired, droopy-eyed Christopher D. Sullivan. He wasn't there again last week. The 70-year-old leader of Tammany Hall had folded his tent after 24 years as Representative of New York's Thirteenth Congressional District, left the Capital as quietly as he entered it in 1917. He was gone for days before he was missed.
Washington was used to not noticing Christy Sullivan. In all his years in Congress, Christy had never made a speech. He attended few sessions, left the actual running of the Tammany bloc in Congress to shrewd, pugnacious Tom Cullen...
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