Word: rizzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone buys a drink, the girl gets a colored stirrer." a witness lectured. "She puts it in her bra, her stocking or her shoe. At the end of the night, she turns the stirrers in for cash.'' Philadelphia Police Inspector Frank Rizzo told of boozy seminars with the girls of his city: "They start on regular liquor. Then they move up to champagne. Of course, the champagne is usually wine and soda.'' "Johns" who balk at the swizzle swindle are promptly returned to their senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife...
...vote standoff, effectively neutralizing the Wisconsin delegation to the national convention. Said State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, a not-so-secret Kennedy supporter: "The change can only be interpreted as an attempt to benefit the candidate of those proposing the formula." Sponsor of the new rules: Committeeman Sam Rizzo, ex-United Auto Workers official and chairman of Humphrey's Wisconsin campaign...
...Humphrey's close tie with labor unions, which count a state membership of 400,000 and claim a "labor vote," including wives, of 800,000. Some 80% of 200 union brasshats in Milwaukee put their names on Humphrey campaign literature, and ex-United Auto Worker Official Sam Rizzo is Humphrey's campaign director. "Will it be their bellies or their church?" cracks Rizzo of Catholic unionists. "We think they'll vote their bellies...