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Show NEW DEAL WINS TAMMANY JOBS NEW YORK. Sept 20 T The new deal gained a powerful apokeunan In Tammany Hall with a victory of Representative James H. Fay over William P. Kenneally, veteran chairman of the Democratic Demo-cratic organization's executive committee, In yesterday"! primary. With presidential backing. Fay won his seat in congress a year ago by defeating former Representative Representa-tive John J. O'Connor, sole victim vic-tim of the Roosevelt purge campaign. cam-paign. Yesterday Fay was named leader . of the twelfth assembly district, ending a 32-year reign by Kenneally. Ken-neally. Another casualty in the ranks of Tammany's "old guard" was Andrew An-drew B. Keating, who lost In the Thirteenth district to Assemblyman Assembly-man William J. Sheldrick. In the. Republican primary, National Na-tional Committeeman Kenneth F. Simpson, strong political supporter of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, overwhelmed an insurgent insur-gent move against his leadership. Simpson's control of the New York county Republican committee had been challenged by a rival faction headed by wealthy Bron-aon Bron-aon Travor, who denounced Simpson Simp-son as a "near communist" because nt .tlianrr-i h manp ulli UlS. American Labor party in local elections. elec-tions. i : |