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MARGARET TRUMAN DANIEL BETTE DAVIS OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND JACK DEMPSEY CARMINE DE SAPIO THOMAS E. DEWEY OTTO DIBELIUS C. DOUGLAS DILLON EVERETT M. DIRKSEN MICHAEL Di SALLE JOSEPH M. DODGE FREDERIC G. DONNER JAMES H. DOOLITTLE JOHN Dos PASSOS LEWIS DOUGLAS DAVID DUBINSKY ALLEN W. DULLES
...Democratic National committee man from New York said in a speech at the Law School that his defeat by a "reform" candidate as Greenwich party leader had very little to do with charges of bossism. "There were intangible factors" which are hard to understand, De Sapio claimed, that led to his defeat...
...helping to found Manhattan's Riverside Democrats in the mid-fifties, Ryan made reform his central issue. In a state whose Democratic tradition embraces both Franklin Roosevelt and Carmine De Sapio, the question of honest, representative government is anything but abstract. The men Tammany Hall was shuttling into office were dependent only on the machine...
...chose him as district leader. By 1960 he was popular enough to wrest the Congressional nomination for New York's 20th district from Tammany's inert Ludwig Teller. This fall, when Tammany and upstate Republicans reapportioned him into a largely unfamiliar district, Ryan scored a strong victory over De Sapio's man, Herbert Zelenko...
...gentle manner concealed a fighting spirit. She had a way of infuriating her opponents by making their efforts, and not hers, seem partisan. She became a powerful force for reform in New York City's Democratic Party, led in the successful attempt to kick out Carmine De Sapio as Tammany Hall's boss...