Word: sedita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just give me a week's time - one week,"Mayor Frank Sedita told a delegation of Negro youths. "Give me a chance to get the message across. I will tell them that your grievances are just and that we'd better get some employ- ment," It was too late for pleas or promises. Buffalo, a hard-nosed manufacturing and port city on Lake Erie, rocked for the first time to the nights of violence and disorder that have already af- flicted so many other cities this year and for three hot summers before...
...thousands to re-elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...
...then came last week's election in Buffalo. A Crotty protėgé. Democratic Mayor Frank A. Sedita, had been beaten in the primary by Democratic Councilman Victor E. Manz. Crotty refused to back Manz in the general election; instead he openly supported Sedita, who ran as an independent. With the Democrats angrily split, Buffalo elected Chester Kowal as its first Republican mayor in eight years. Instead of the familiar thanks of victory, Peter Crotty heard irate Democratic demands...
...along party, ethnic and religious lines, are covered with the thoroughness of a paper whose editor believes that "politics and government turn out to be our job." The News's Republicanism, usually confined to the editorial page, gives local Democrats the conniptions. Just last month Mayor Frank A. Sedita, a Democrat, went on television to bewail what he considered lopsided News coverage of his office. But between swipes at the paper, the mayor reads it attentively, takes all but two of the seven daily editions, and in cooler moments has been heard to say that "the news pages have...