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...minds formulated vague and happy pictures of warm homes with interesting tweed-jacketed or blue-jeaned husbands who "respected our minds," kiddies diligently manipulating creative playthings, and also, vaguer still, some fulfilling, creative "work...
...minds formulated vague and happy pictures of warm homes with interesting tweed-jacked or blue-jeaned husbands who "respected our minds." kiddies diligently manipulating creative playthings, and also, vaguer still, some fulfilling, creative "work...
When the law finally jailed Boss Tweed, the Tammany Hall czar gave his occupation as "statesman." His successor many times removed, Carmine De Sapio, was more modest when he testified recently in his own defense. Known as "The Bishop" in his glory days, De Sapio called himself an "ex-political leader...
...help. The kind of scandal that often tars machine politicians never seriously stained him until after his retirement. Last year he was charged in a bribery conspiracy; last week he got a two-year sentence. The situation was hardly unique, but the scale seemed all wrong. The millions that Tweed stole could never be accurately computed. Witnesses put De Sapio's cut in this case at a piddling...
According to the demonstrators, the law firm-Milbank. Tweed Hadley, and McCloy-is involved in aiding South Africa...