Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard, Hard!" How can Harriman overhaul Stevenson for the Democratic nomination? How, if nominated, could he have a prayer against Dwight Eisenhower? For his answers, De Sapio can only draw on his rugged New York political schooling. In discussing the national situation, he likes to dwell on his experiences with Republican Tom Dewey (De Sapio insists that Dewey, not Candidate Irving Ives, was the real loser in the 1954 gubernatorial election...
...that the Eisenhower myth of invincibility in the White House is comparable to the Dewey myth of invincibility in Albany," says De Sapio. "I may be wrong. These are my ideas. I have discussed them hardly at all with leaders from any other state. But my experience beating Dewey here leads me to believe that the situations are closer than people think...
...waited for him to slip-just a little -then I banged him." De Sapio clenches his big fists in front of his chest. "Banged him. He made two mistakes. He put through the rent increases and raised the subway fare to 15?. That was enough...
Carmine De Sapio passionately believes that Ike can be licked. What is more, he thinks that Averell Harriman (managed by Carmine De Sapio) is just the boy to do it. He may be wrong, he may be right. He is certainly going to try to find out whether the people can be made to want what he wants...
...state; he was the first Tammany leader really to do so. When Murphy died in 1924 (while making plans to boom Al Smith for President), Mayor Jimmy Walker mourned: "The brains of Tammany Hall lie buried in Calvary Cemetery." And so they did, at least until Carmine De Sapio came along...