Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carmine De Sapio, Tammany boss and Harriman's right hand man, added: "A country-club quartet-a small clique of self-appointed and self-anointed men who have never exposed themselves to the mandate of a national election-now rules the White House and runs our nation. These men-Sherman Adams, Charles Wilson, George Humphrey and John Foster Dulles-are the Richelieus and Rasputins of 20th century America...
...experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a fast-moving, "inactive" candidate, Harriman has been the subject of complimentary remarks by former President Harry Truman and the beneficiary of considerable spadework by Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio...
...picture of "Mr. Democrat" was most appropriate. It used to be Pendergast peering over Truman's shoulder; now it's Tammany Hall's Boss De Sapio. All are of the same ilk and bilk. When Truman complains, "We have lost heavily among the millions of uncommitted people in Asia," he seems to have forgotten under whose administration it was that the Chinese Commies were called "merely agrarian reformers." There are thousands of American casualties of Korea who weren't nearly so happy on "Harry's Night...
...government published its annual honors list, elevated several prominent U.S. citizens to its five-year-old Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Among them: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, named to the order's highest rank, Knight of the Grand Cross; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, made a Commander. Last week Cardinal Spellman also got a U.S. accolade: the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Gold Award for 1955, for his "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare...
...knew this better than "inactive" Candidate Averell Harriman and his politically wise advisers, including Tammany Hall Sachem Carmine De Sapio, and this week they made the most of it. Appearing on a radio panel show, Harriman jumped in with both feet. He 1) defended the Powell amendment, and 2) demanded "immediate federal enforcement" of the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling...