Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found out. Early last week, alerted to De Sapio's visit, six top party leaders gathered in the Los Angeles hotel suite of the state's No. 1 Democrat, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. Problem: What to do about De Sapio? Their solution was sharp and bright as a knife: start a draft-Stevenson movement...
...Snyder and others-in a parked car-drafted a telegram urging Adlai to run. Party leaders and Democratic clubs in every one of California's 58 counties were asked, by phone and wire, to add their signatures. An impressive array of leaders signed. Before breakfast, on Carmine De Sapio's second day in San Francisco, agitated National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser, who still likes Kefauver, bustled into De Sapio's suite at the Fairmount Hotel to break the bad news: Pat Brown and other top party leaders were holding a press conference down at the Palace Hotel...
...draft movement. "We're off and running," said Pat Brown. "We want this movement to begin in the West, and there's no turning back: we're in this until Stevenson releases us at the convention." Los Angeles Democratic Leader Paul Ziffren, who could be De Sapio's twin for looks, signed the Stevenson telegram. Nevertheless, he visited De Sapio and tried to soften the thrust...
...week's end, when Grand Sachem De Sapio got home across the Hudson again, he allowed himself a comment on the conduct of his fellow-Democrats in California. "Panicky and hasty," he said, wiping his brow...
...every American, regardless of party, that the Democrats pick the best candidate. Estes Kefauver has neither the stature nor the articulated political principles which the President of the United States should have. Averell Harriman has not yet shown that he leads rather than is led by the Carmine De Sapio-Tammany Hall Democratic political machine that got him elected...