Word: desapio
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...called himself a Republican. The political parties functioned in a sense like secular churches, with doctrines and powers of intercession, with saints, rites, duties, disciplines and rewards. From wards to White House, the parties were crucial to the way the country worked. The old Tammany boss Carmine DeSapio remembered hauling coal as a young party errand boy to keep families of voters from freezing in the winter. A millionaire political boss like Mark Hanna could install William McKinley as President...
...committee ever seen behind U.S. bars. Hoffa organized it informally to hear and act on complaints. It included, according to him, L.B.J.'s former aide, Bobby Baker, serving one to three years for theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the Government, and Tammany Leader, Carmine DeSapio, who went to Lewisburg last year for two years on three counts of bribery, as well as a former Army colonel, several businessmen and a Ph.D. Recalls Hoffa: "We were very active. We'd write memos to the warden, memos to the captain, lodge protests, take up grievances, get briefs...
...Slightly hunched, his mustache twitching with delight at his guile, Gitter simply oozes charm, duplicity and cunning. At the prospect of murder, his eyebrows wiggle and his voice rises to an ecstatic pitch. He combines the avariciousness of a Jewish pawn-shop broker with the greasiness of a Carmine DeSapio...
...most dramatic part of his career came after his retirement from the Senate in 1957, when he and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spearheaded the drive 'to reform New York's Democratic Party. In 1961, at the age of 33, he campaigned actively against Carmine DeSapio and the other party bossed, speaking from sound trucks and touring the city on foot in the middle of a hot summer. Even after achieving victory, he continued to guide New York's reform movement and act as the state's political conscience until his death...
...major flaw in City Politics results from the size of the authors' task. In order to make general observations about all cities they have discussed exciting figures such as Laguardia, Curley, Moses, Hague, Murphy, and DeSapio only as examples of various aspects of politics, not as individuals. Not only are these men interesting, but they have also assumed essential roles in determining the political processes of their cities. In attempting to deal with all cities, Banfield and Wilson have distilled away an essential ingredient of urban politics: the ability of individual politicians to change the political nature of their...