Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carmine De Sapio [Aug. 22]: Do you honestly think that the Tammany Tiger under De Sapio has changed stripes, or that the people think so ? For all the whitewashing . . . the black stripes are still there, even though De Sapio has a new technique. He says Tammany is honest, and-ergo-that is supposed to make it honest. He should read Macbeth once again, to refresh his recollection about a "damned spot" that is still there...
Carmine De Sapio's professed disassociation with the mobster elements around Tammany came as no surprise; that TIME should print it was a surprise. Of course, if De Sapio is on the level, then TIME did the public a service with its cover story...
...very clever job in leaning over backward so as not to give De Sapio the benefit of any doubt...
...Carmine De Sapio spends ". . . hours each day in his national committeeman's headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel." On Mondays and Fridays he ". . . holds court ... in Tammany Hall." He "averages a dozen speeches a week . . . He politicks at his kitchen table from 8 a.m. and all the while he is trying to chart the presidential candidacy of the Governor of New York, Averell Harriman, etc., etc." Tell me-do our taxes pay this man a salary as Secretary of State...
When I saw the tiger behind De Sapio on the cover, I thought it looked familiar to me, so I put on my reading glasses, and, sure enough, there were the words "after Th. Nast." To say I was pleased is an understatement, because Thomas Nast was my father. I am nearly 76 years young...