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...Carmine De Sapio spends ". . . hours each day in his national committeeman's headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel." On Mondays and Fridays he ". . . holds court ... in Tammany Hall." He "averages a dozen speeches a week . . . He politicks at his kitchen table from 8 a.m. and all the while he is trying to chart the presidential candidacy of the Governor of New York, Averell Harriman, etc., etc." Tell me-do our taxes pay this man a salary as Secretary of State...
...responsible for cultivating Harriman's political future retired early in his apartment at 37 Washington Square West. Harriman's head political gardener, Carmine Gerard De Sapio, sachem of the Tamawa political club, leader of the First Assembly District South, Boss of Tammany Hall,* National Committeeman, New York Secretary of State, who will control the largest state bloc of delegate votes at next year's national convention, went to bed with a slight fever. Carmine De Sapio* had the summer sniffles...
...required by law, they swear to adhere to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the constitution of New York as they supervise the state's hair wavers. Then, moving uptown, he holds forth for at least a few hours each day in his national committeeman's offices in the Biltmore Hotel. On Mondays and Fridays De Sapio holds court across the street in the quarters of Tammany Hall, whose seediness belies their Madison Avenue address...
...Celler invited Secretary Weeks to come up and testify about the council. When Weeks replied that he did not know when he might find time, Committee Chairman Celler pronounced the answer evasive. And evasive answers, he went on, were a subject he knew something about. Turning to a fellow committeeman, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, Celler told a story. "I remember years ago, Hugh, I got a wire from a very irate constituent who said, 'I demand to know forthwith whether you are for or against the draft,' and I wired back: 'I certainly...
Last week, after a nod from Shivers, the Texas Democratic Executive Committee removed Wright Morrow from the office of national committeeman. There was little doubt that the name of his successor, not yet chosen, would be presented to Speaker Sam on bended knee...