Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best." Yet the onstage Adlai was in comparatively dull fettle. In Albany he devoted three pages of a five-page speech in homage to New York's roster of eminent Democrats (Roosevelt, Lehman, Al Smith), not neglecting recent foes Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio. Nor was his attack on the Eisenhower Administration any more resounding than the calling of the roll: a "false front" administration, he called it, where Eisenhower appointees were undercutting programs, e.g., public housing, conservation, which had progressed under the Democratic administrations. Many a New York Democratic conventioneer sat on his hands...
...meeting on Tuesday of six New Jersey leaders, Bob Meyner flatly refused to stand as a favorite son, convinced Jersey City Leader John Kenny that Harriman was a sure loser. The six voted unanimously to back Stevenson. Kenny reported to New York's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, who passed on the bad news to Harry Truman. The old man refused to give up. He summoned Bob Meyner to his suite and went stronger than ever for Harriman−pleading, cajoling, crackling with emotion. But Meyner stood firm...
...Little. By the time the delegates jammed into the convention hall Thursday afternoon to nominate a President, Stevenson was so far ahead that nothing could beat him. Thirteen delegations had intoned their votes before Harriman passed the 10 mark. Harriman's campaign adviser, Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, had known for a long while what was coming; he sat calm and cool among his red-faced, sweating New York delegation. After it was all over, he murmured wistfully: "If we had only had more time." On his way out he stepped over to Harry Truman...
...scramble became even madder. Connecticut State Chairman John Bailey, who had been using Governor Abraham Ribicoff as a Kennedy messenger boy, sent word to Carmine De Sapio: "Tell Carmine he can get out of this with something. He can make this one−if he'll go now." Carmine agreed (he has never forgotten that Estes and the Kefauver committee in 1950 made him out an old pal of Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn...
...late preconvention season of 1956, two Catholics-Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy and New York Mayor Robert Wagner-rank high among Democratic vice-presidential possibilities. One reason: a confidential survey now in the hands of selected Democratic leaders, e.-g., Harriman Adviser Carmine De Sapio and Stevenson Campaign Manager James Finnegan (both Catholics). The survey's fundamental thesis: Democratic presidential chances in November may well depend upon getting a Catholic on the national ticket...