Andrew Cesare person
also: Andy Ciceri, Ciceri, Cesare
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“led the Democrats to a rare victory that even the local newspaper called smashing. Cutter beat the Republican candidate by nearly a two to one margin. To reward Ciceri, the new mayor appointed him city attorney. So Ciceri got the mayor elec…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 52:49
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The State Department spokesman protested that by not getting Dan to a hospital, they had magnified the inhumanity of the act, but the Tuporero bulletin had been couched in medical language and specified that no vital organs had been damaged…
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Cesare, let me spell that guy's name because he comes up again, C-E-C-E-R-E, could agree with an editorial. Unlike the Mitterrand boys, Cesare had chosen to live in Richmond. He had not been raised in Goosetown. Perhaps that was why he, amo…
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He was an outgoing person and starred in many of the local theaters. Ciceri had graduated from law school at the University of Michigan. He served in the Marines and had settled in Richmond in 1949, which is kind of odd, like really, really…
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He was invited to the clubhouse at the North End where he played cards and met all of the Italians, especially young Dan Mitterrand. But the powerful men, the wealthy and conservative leadership of the town, were not interested in one more …
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After two years of practicing law and being recalled back into the Marine Corps, Cesare came back to Richmond in 1953 in a fighting mood. By then, he knew who ran the town. There was a short list of people. A Mr. Hill from Hill Floral Produ…
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as a caretaker for their estate. Of the qualities that they viewed in a public servant, an independent mind ranked at the bottom. In other words, they were the town elites and they were looking for someone they could control that would mana…
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The occupant of the mayor's office was a guy by the name of Lester Meadows. He was the local barber. In 1955, Mayor Meadows announced that he would be laying down the burdens of public office, and the downtown businessman chose a florist as…
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For a second time, Roland Cutter, an insurance man from a family that was old and respectable and wanted to make a strong showing against Meadows. Meadows had or excuse me, Cutter had ran against Meadows four years earlier. Cesare knew that…
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led the Democrats to a rare victory that even the local newspaper called smashing. Cutter beat the Republican candidate by nearly a two to one margin. To reward Ciceri, the new mayor appointed him city attorney. So Ciceri got the mayor elec…
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Sometime later, an old-timer cornered Ciceri and asked him how it could happen that foreigners came in and took over the town. By the time Andy Ciceri was not offended, he laughed and said, there's been such a void in Richmond that even som…
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was another who admired the way Italians over on the north end raised their children. For years, Cutter had seen Dan around town, always neat, well-behaved, well-dressed. In recent years, two Italians had won seats on the city council, and …