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...York's liberal Democrats, led by Mayor Wagner (of all people), seem to have won their long struggle against the tight party control of Tammany leader Carmine G. De Sapio...
Ever since De Sapio bulldozed the State Convention into nominating Frank Hogan for the senatorial seat now held by Kenneth Keating, New York's liberals have been battling to loosen his grip on the party. At that time De Sapio's blatant display of political power raised the charge of "bossism" and undoubtedly helped sweep the Rockefeller-Keating ticket to victory...
Weakened by the loss of the governorship and by his small margin of victory in the primaries last fall, De Sapio has been on un-easy political footing for the past few months. And yesterday, by taking control of the state delegation to the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Wagner effectively ended De Sapio's national power, and reduced him to a mere county leader on the local scene...
Rule or Ruin. Mike Di Salle, like such other notable Catholic leaders as Pennsylvania's Governor Dave Lawrence, California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, New York's Carmine De Sapio, is especially sensitive to the fact that a fellow Catholic will come under heavy fire both at the Los Angeles convention and in the general election. But Di Salle is also a political realist. In a series of meetings and telephone calls over the past seven months, Kennedy made it quite clear to Di Salle that 1) Kennedy's best...
...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...