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...Hard Feelings. In Celebrezze, Kennedy got not only a good administrator, a well-honed politician and an outgoing personality, but a man who could help him tie up some political loose ends. Chief among them was the restive Italian-American bloc, whose 4,543,935 members make it the biggest foreign-born minority group...
...replaced Abraham Ribicoff at HEW turned out to be a surprise: Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze, 51, the first Italian-American ever appointed to the Cabinet. While the Washington press corps fruitlessly speculated about other possibilities, the White House was trying desperately to reach Celebrezze at his vacation retreat in Canada, did not get him until the day before the appointment was announced in Hyannisport. Said Celebrezze after his appointment: "Where is there a better place that a poor boy from the slums could...
...John Bailey, who works in consultation with O'Brien Staffman Dick Donahue. But O'Brien knows well that patronage is still a potent political instrument; he makes recommendations to Bailey on major appointments, and his suggestions receive top-priority consideration. Thus, when the 14 members of the Italian-American congressional bloc threatened to vote against the Administration's feed-grains bill just to demonstrate their power, O'Brien quickly found out what was on their minds: no man of Italian descent had been appointed to a major Administration post. O'Brien promised to look into...
...foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken of as the outstanding figure in the huge (more than 4,000,000) U.S. Italian-American community. Yet last week, standing before a New York federal judge, Fortune and Anthony Pope were branded "incredibly stupid," fined $25,000 each...
...Lawyer Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.-to pay off F.D.R. Jr. for his brass-knuckled campaigning in the West Virginia primary election and to build him up possibly to challenge Nelson Rockefeller for the New York governorship in 1962. While the Rome post might be good for a lot of Italian-American votes, F.D.R. Jr. has almost certainly decided not to take-at least for a while-an Administration job. In that case, the next choice for Rome is Encyclopaedia Britannica Chairman William Benton, the onetime Connecticut Senator and big-time Kennedy campaign contributor...