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*Valente denied it. In 1943, it was charged that Thomas Aurelio, who became a State Supreme Court justice, owed his nomination to Costello. A grand jury failed to make the charge stick. *Celebrating the hall's 162nd anniversary last week, a handful of Tammanyites heard a message from Harry Truman, "In peace and in war," the President wrote, "the members of the society have exemplified through more than eight score years the highest ideals of patriotism and loyal service and devotion to the public welfare."