Word: sapio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before 300 political writers at a National Press Club lunch in Washington, Carmine De Sapio discussed foreign and economic policy at a level never before scaled by a boss of Tammany Hall. While Republicans could point to plenty of holes in the speech, it was capable campaign debating. On the platform the man who is supposed to do his work behind the scenes did better than the front men have done...
Democratic Peace. The Republicans, charged De Sapio, are attempting to "gorge the American voter on this charming metaphoric morsel-peace and prosperity. The Republicans talk of peace as if it were something which they invented and . . . which only they could safeguard. They ignore the fact that peace, as it exists today, is the direct result of the bipartisan foreign policy worked out by the Democratic Administration...
When Tammany Boss De Sapio was through crediting the Democrats with all of the good and the Republicans with all of the bad, many reporters at the National Press Club agreed that he had cut and laid out what might well become the pattern for the Democratic campaign...
...course, it goes without saying that we aren't particularly interested in having De Sapio run the country with Harriman as regent; Stevenson may have his faults and quirks, but we independents feel he is basically honest and never opportunistic...
...While De Sapio is making the proper maneuvers in public-keeping Harriman alive as a candidate, but not pushing him too far out-Averell Harriman will be working intensely toward the goal in his own way. At whatever game he is playing -polo, croquet, iskiing, bridge, railroading, diplomacy, politics-he has a consuming urge to keep working, driving, doing. One reason for that urge may well be the fact that, if he had been inclined to loaf, he would not have had to turn a hand throughout his life. His father gave him many of the rewards men work...