Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such bosses as The Bronx's Charles Buckley, Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey-and, particularly, Tammany Hall's Carmine De Sapio. Returning to his Greenwich Village apartment late one night, De Sapio was asked by a neighbor: "How's it going?" Replied De Sapio wearily: "It would be going all right if Wagner would just quit talking about bosses and discuss the issues...
Career's End. De Sapio's forebodings were well taken. Election Day was pleasantly mild-just the sort of weather to attract voters-and colorless Candidate Levitt's chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt...
...bribe taking in the controller's office and by inspectors of departments that supervise buildings, markets, water supply, gas and electricity. Trying to hold onto the support of reform Democrats, led by former Governor Herbert Lehman and Eleanor Roosevelt, Wagner last winter demanded that Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio resign. Emboldened by the applause he got for that move, Wagner decided to drop his machine-honed running mates and pick his own candidates for deputy mayor and controller. That lost him the support of two borough bosses far more powerful than De Sapio: Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey...
Sinister Evil. Wagner wasted no time labeling the Levitt choice as "a gang-up of callous political bosses headed by Carmine De Sapio," warned of "sinister evil" if Levitt were elected. What the mayor forgot was that he himself had also been a De Sapio selection (TIME cover, Oct. 1, 1956) and that there has been a lot of evil in the city under Bumbling Bob. Wagner's administration, among its many scandals, has been graced by a city purchasing agent who milked the city of $500,000 through rigged bidding on rock salt. Currently the city is flinching...
...Sapio was no man to give up without a fight. Asked if he would step aside, he replied with a loud "no," and promised that the coming primaries would decide who is in charge. But with his patronage cut off at both the White House and city hall, Carmine De Sapio and his Tammany tiger have little left to fight with...