Word: gerarde
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...Manhattan, the man who is 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...
...nativity carried a brand that still sears his political outlook. He was born 46 years ago, an Italian in an Irish sea. The lower Greenwich Village neighborhood of his birth was about 95% Irish, about 5% Italian. (Today, the ratio in that neighborhood is almost precisely reversed.) His father, Gerard De Sapio, came to the U.S. at the age of ten from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like the Staten Island ferry, if you know what I mean, but I thought it was the greatest ship...
...Italian (he recently sat next to an Italian diplomat at a dinner, listened politely for an hour, did not learn until later that he had accepted an invitation to visit Italy). He does not remember ever hearing his parents converse in Italian; quick-witted Marietta and hard-working Gerard De Sapio spoke English, tried to teach their son that he was an American, pure and simple. Between them, they established a solid little trucking business, came to own a stable of 14 horses. They lived in a comfortable if modest first-floor apartment, with their stables out back. De Sapio...
...Land state prison camp where Home confessed to her four other holdups, named five accomplices, including Miami Policemen Peter Balma and Lewis Womack. The two cops, said Home, picked out easy robbery victims while on their motorcycle rounds, gave the names and addresses to Home and his partner, Gerard Casselli, collected 25% of their take...
Along with 24 other military policemen at Alaska's Fort Richardson, Army Private First Class G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 27, of last year's Army-McCarthy ruckus, was upped to corporal, got his pay raised to $122.30 a month...