Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...premature to discount Roosevelt's political future altogether. One suspects that national committee-man Carmine De Sapio and his fellow Democratic leaders gave something to him in return for his agreement to accept a subordinate position on the ticket. That something may be a promise of the nomination for Senator in 1956, if Senator Lehman should decide to retire, or for Senator in 1958 against the apparently vulnerable Ives...
With the Dewey decision, the Democratic side of New York's gubernatorial picture became much clearer. The Democratic nomination lay between Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and New-Fair Deal Diplomat W. Averell Harriman. The choice was up to Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio, who. with his fellow Democratic metropolitan county leaders, controls a deciding bloc of delegate votes in the nominating convention next week...
...candidates, there was little doubt that Roosevelt would be the stronger in a general election. Last winter, with De Sapio's knowledge and tacit approval, Junior started rounding up delegates from upstate New York (TIME, June 21). He succeeded all too well; De Sapio's palace guards, who had previously encouraged Roosevelt, began to fear that his upstate strength would shift the balance of power away from Tammany. That was enough for De Sapio, who already looked approvingly on Harriman because 1) as an undeviating party regular, he was more susceptible to control than Junior, and 2) with...
...Thus, De Sapio and the Democratic organization picked their man: hardworking, grey-toned Averell Harriman. 62, a well-meaning but ineffectual candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, who has never been elected to anything other than a board of directors. Frank Roosevelt-choosing his words carefully so as to avoid a frontal attack on either Harriman or the bosses-cried out that he was still in the race. He was among the few who thought...
While all these important names moved through the headlines, a long-faced politician from the Democrats' Italian-American bloc and a gnarled Irishman watched with quiet interest. Carmine De Sapio and Charles Buckley are little known outside New York City, but they are big men in the rooms where New York Democratic decisions are made. De Sapio, Democratic national committeeman and the boss of Tammany Hall, will control at least 212 votes in the convention. U.S. Representative Buckley, boss of The Bronx, will walk in with 108. Some time before the convention begins on September 21, De Sapio...