Word: alesandro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From his rough & tumble boyhood surroundings in Baltimore's Little Italy, hard by the waterfront, Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. fought his way toward the political big time. He never lost an election, became mayor of Baltimore, and was ready for greater things...
...Home & Abroad. The year after Baltimore lost its last major-league ball club 52 years ago, Tommy was born in a crowded row house on President Street, the fourth of his mother's 13 children. To support them, Tomaso D'Alesandro, Tommy's father, swung a pick in a city rock quarry. Such work was not for junior. While still at night high school, he hung around the Third Ward Democratic headquarters, at election time rang door bells and passed handbills...
...Democratic Boss Willie Curran, but at 22, in defiance of the machine, he got elected to the Maryland house of delegates. After two terms, Tommy wangled an appointment in the Internal Revenue Bureau's New York office, and named his second son Franklin Delano Roosevelt D'Alesandro (afterwards known as "Roosey"). Back in Baltimore, Tommy served a term on the city council, then ran for Congress against the machine-backed incumbent. By a 58-vote margin, Tommy...
...George P. Mahoney, twice defeated, once for the Senate and once for governor, never stopped running after election day 1952, has shaken every hand he can find from Buffalo Run to Pocomoke City. A third candidate, Thomas D'Alesandro, Democratic National Committeeman and mayor of Baltimore, announced his candidacy for governor last August, but slipped behind when his son was implicated in a teen-age vice scandal. Last week D'Alesandro withdrew from the race...
...ended. After twice vetoing the transfer since last spring, the American League Club owners suddenly and solidly (8-0) voted to switch the St. Louis Browns' franchise to Baltimore. What changed their minds was the flying-wedge persistence of Baltimore's Mayor Tommy W. D'Alesandro and Attorney Clarence W. Miles, head of a Baltimore syndicate which will put up the money. Other cities, e.g., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas City and Toronto, made token gestures to get the Browns, but only Baltimore came waving real cash...