Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond that, nobody was quite certain whom he had in mind; he could have meant Stevenson, whose passive third-time availability galls him, or he could even have meant Eleanor Roosevelt, who is part of a New York reform group trying to upset Tammany Leader Carmine De Sapio...
...Manhattan radio station, Eleanor Roosevelt made a rare public utterance in Italian, a tongue that she first picked up long ago as a schoolgirl in England. Target of her somewhat critical shafts: Fellow Democrat Carmine Gerard De Sapio, leader of Manhattan's Tammany Hall, who might have followed Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks but scarcely replied in kind, because he speaks little Italian...
Arrayed against the new power of the west were such diverse Democrats as Pennsylvania's Governor David Leo Lawrence, Illinois' Jake Arvey, New York's Carmine De Sapio and Georgia's Committeewoman Mrs. T. K. Kendrick. In trying to persuade the Democratic National Committee to veto the site-selection committee's choice of Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic convention, they argued that 1) Los Angeles is expensively far away for most delegates, 2) the Pacific time zone would mean poorly programed telecasting to eastern audiences, 3) Los Angeles smog is too thick...
...stupid," protested Pennsylvania's new Democratic Governor David Lawrence, longtime National Committeeman. Among those who agreed were New York's Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, and Illinois' veteran National Committeeman Jack Arvey. In ragged unison the powerful Democratic old pros were warming up for a free-for-all fight at the next full meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. Subject of fight: the National Committee's site-selection committee and its choice of Los Angeles as the place for next year's convention (TIME...
...people of New York State expressed their revulsion and rebellion by repudiating "bossism" at the polls, it cannot be denied that Mr. Harriman's vacillating character and Mayor Wagner's indecisiveness were also repudiated. If Tammany Hall Carmine De Sapio slaughtered the ceremonial pig on which Mr. Rockefeller dined, Governor Harriman and Mayor Wagner served it to him on a sterling silver tray, with an apple in its mouth...