Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Impy are the remains of Manhattan's once-powerful Tammany machine, now run by Leader Carmine De Sapio, 44, and the venerable Bronx organization of Boss Edward J. Flynn, an old confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Last week, in a traditional smoke-filled Manhattan hotel room, the opposing Democratic party bosses had it out. Queens Leader James A. Roe, Brooklyn's Kenneth Sutherland and Staten Island's Jeremiah A. Sullivan insisted on nominating Impellitteri. De Sapio and Congressman Charles A. Buckley, representing Flynn, refused to go along with them, then carried the fight into a hotel corridor, where reporters overheard the end. Yelled Leader Buckley, "You are wrecking the Democratic Party!" Snapped Leader Roe, "You might as well go out on 42nd Street. We're going to stop you sabotaging the party...
...days later, Flynn and De Sapio put up their own candidate, Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner, 43, an amiable party worker whose father, the late Senator, was one of the city's greatest vote getters...
...Liberals nominated George S. Counts, a professor of education at Columbia. The four to five hundred thousand votes that the Liberals are thus pulling from Cashmore in this manner, make the Democrat's election virtually impossible. Even the regular party machine men, led by Tammany boss Cavmine De Sapio are pessimistic at the loss of Liberal support and awed by Ives' personal popularity; they have not been working for Cashmore...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. might have had the nomination, but Congressman Roosevelt is saying himself for the 1954 campaign for governor. The bosses pondered over Robert Wagner Jr., borough president of Manhattan, who had little to recommend him but the name of his crusading, pro-labor father. Carmine De Sapio, a colorless small-timer who runs what's left of Tammany Hall, was for Wagner, which meant that New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri was automatically against him. In doubt and confusion, the Democrats chose John Cashmore, 57, the borough president of Brooklyn...