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...from firm. Moreover, they needed political scorecards to recognize players fighting for positions on each team. Items: ¶ Seven-term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 49, already under indictment for income tax evasion (TIME, May 19), flipped into trouble on another front. Under prodding by Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio, Harlem political leaders declared Powell Democrat non grata for his support of the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket two years ago, looked around for another candidate. Pastor Powell (Abyssinian Baptist Church) churned into an oratorical frenzy. Cried he: "I am being purged because obviously I am a Negro and a Negro should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who's on First? | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...scurried all over Chicago, but it was of necessity a disorganized effort; e.g., at about 1:30 a.m., someone said a man, name unknown, had been cooling his heels for ten minutes waiting to see Kennedy. It turned out to be New York's Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, with more than 90 big delegate votes in his hip pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...lost last year to Republican Jacob Javits by 450,000 votes), where his father, the late Robert F. Wagner Sr., left a record as a promoter of organized labor. For another crack at the Senate, Wagner must roll up a big vote next week; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio has passed the word that Wagner needs a 1,000,000-vote plurality to go places nationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Amateur's Day | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...method of assessment, Tufts University Sociologists Edward M. Bennett and Harriet M. Goodwin set out to analyze the U.S. woman as a political creature. Before the American Sociological Society convention in Washington last week, they presented their findings in the language of Freud rather than that of Carmine De Sapio or Leonard Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Tender & Tough | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...ORGANIZATION MAN-by Carmine De Sapio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PARLOR GAME | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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