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DeSapio: The Politician to Watch in '56
- By BRUCE BOISSAT
Or The NEA
NEW YORK (NEA)-Carmine
DeSapio, leader of New York's
tabled Tammany Hall, has
name (hat rolls off the tongue
likepan opera star's. It might
be well for the nation's cjtizenry
to practice rolling it, for he may
turn, out to be a kingmaker at
the Jiext Democratic presidential
contention in maii.
DeSapio today is the unchal-
icngpa pouucai doss 01 me n
lion's largest city and largest
tat. He is New York s Demo
cralic national committeeman.
And: as the professional behind
newcomer Gov. Avcrell Harri-
manf he will go to the next con
ventibn with an Impressive batch
of 90-odd delegates in his pocket
His weight could bo crucial.
In climbing to this new emi
nence, DeSapio restored Tarn
many, the New York County
(Manhattan) Democratic organi
zation, to place of power with
an apparent new look for the
first time sinco fiery Florcllo La
Guardia broke the machine in the
early 1930's.
BACKED IIARRIMAN
His rise to broadening poiilical
power got Its biggest assist last
fall when llamman, his personal
choice for Democratic nominee,
narrowly captured the New York
governorship from Sen. Irving
Ives, a potent Republican vote
getter. He scored an earlier suc
cess by backing Mayor Robert
Wagner in 1953.
The fruits of victory tasted es
pecially sweet to DeSapio, for at
the September slate party con
vention he had engineered the
ditching of Franklin D. Roose
velt Jr., Harriman's ambitious
rival, rated by some a "sure
rated by some a "sure thing" at
the polls. Roosevelt ran instead
for state attorney general, and
tumbled to a 250,000-vote defeat.
The man who has brought all
this off is a 46-year-old native
New Yorker of Italian parentage
who is something of a new cut
in politicians. He is tall, solidly
built, with black hair effectively
streaked with gray, and glasses
inted because of a chronic eye
ailment. His dress is faultlessly
conservative. Ho could be a bank
er or a bishop, which his friends
sometimes call him.
runsuAsivE
He is no crude, old-fashioned
wielder of power. In 'I lie modern
manner, he seeks to lead by per
suading and conciliating, bolt-
spoken and engagingly warm hi
personal contact, he has a strong
platform voice and welcomes ap
pearances on radio, television,
and other forums.
This is a man who lectures on
politics at various colleges. He
has a date this spring to invade
the august precincts of Harvard
Law bchool for a talk. That ought
to set some sort of precedent.
Ilchapio, loo. is a man who.
though ho came to power through
the customary political infight
ing, spouts the good government
theme, publicly promotes election
reforms, and otherwise endeavors
to confound those who remember
Tammany as the old symbol and
substance ot the crime-ridden ma
chine, the corrupt organization
which gained its greatest noto
riety in the 19th Century heyday
of bosses Tweed and Croker.
A NEW GIMMICK
DeSapio's detractors say this
smooth, respectable front is a false
facade, that he's just got a new
gimmick, that he's really no bet
ter than the old cigar-smoking
hard hats who gave Tammany its
evil sound.
There is ambiguous evidence
on the relations of DeSapio and
some of his Tammany associates
to Frank Costcllo, long touted a
crime czar in and beyond New
York City. DeSapio insists Cos
tcllo has no influence over his
operations, but he acknowledges
knowing him. The question seems
to be, "how well?"
His critics also say and some
of his friends agree that DeSa
pio was lucky at many points
along the way.
In 15)50, his first election test
DR. JORDAN SAYS
Self-Prescribing Iodine Tablets Is Risky
.By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D.
An important question conies
from a reader who asks if it is
0. K. to take iodine tablets with
out consulting a physician. Refine
discussing the subject of iodine
and its relatives the "iodides"
further, I should like to answer
the question by sayinn that 1 cU
not consider it advisable.
t Iodine is ona of the chemical
elements. To most people," it is
perhaps best known'ln the form
of tincture of iodine which is an
arttisiptic in use for many years.
An lodint, oi whim mere are
disorders of the human body,
iodides appear to have a bene
ficial effect, though the reasons
why they do so are sometimes
rather obscure.
Another we for the Iodides
has been their addition to
salt in the prevention of simple
enlargement of the" thyroid gland
(simple goiter! in ' those areas
where the drinking water does
not contain enough, iodides.
Thorn is no doubj that this has
had a remarkably fine effect on
cutting doni the nujober of peo-
I'n won
anemia, mental depression, nerv
ousness, sleeplessness, and the
like may develop. In the pres
ence of tuberculosis iodides may
cause the disease to become ac
tive where it was apparently un
der control bctnro.
For reasons such as these
the takiuuof iodide tablets reg
ulasly, except wliere the amount
is known to the physician and he
as leader, he backed the wrong
horse against underdog Vincent
Impellittcri, who took the may
oralty as an independent But
"Impy" proved a poor executive
and for three years, DeSapio
hung on as Tammany chief, while
dodging slings and arrows.
POWER CONSOLIDATED .
In 1953, he followed the lead
of the late Bronx boss, Ed Flynn,
in plumping for Wagner as may
oralty nominee. When Flynn died
before Wagner's election, De
Sapio stood as the winner's chief
sponsor, and his city power was
consolidated.
In 1954, Harriman squeaked
through by a paper-thin 12,000
voles, and by that frail margin
DeSapio was "in."
But there's another side. De
Sapio has given his whole adult
life to politics. He's a professional
in the fullest sense. He works a
seven-day week and a 16-hour day
at it.
He may see 100 people person
ally every day, and talk to an
other 75 on the telephone. He
rises at 7:30 in the morning, and
often visitors are crowding his
outer hall by 8:30. Sometimes one
is at his side as he shaves or
gulps breakfast. He's seldom
home for dinner. He may attend
15 or 20 luncheons, dinners and
other functions every week.
NOTHING NEW
This taxing schedule isn't new
for him. He toiled hard and sob
erly as a boy for his parents'
Manhattan trucking firm. He
kept it up in law school until
poor health forced him out. Then
politics became his life.,
By 1939 he had enough of a
personal following to challenge
his district leader. He beat him,
but his opponent's lingering pow
er prevented DeSapio from being
seated.
Finally, in 1943, he made the
Tammany grade. Three years
later, out of some power ma
neuvering he picked off a plum
a $12,000 city job. In 1949 a lead
ership shakcup gave him his
chance, and he seized the or
ganization's reins. Six years later,
the crumbling Tammany shell
DeSapio inherited has become
once more a challenging poiilical
force.
LITTLE HOME LIFE
The man who rebuilt It plainly
does not have much time for
home life. His wife, Theresa, and
his 17-year-old daughter, Ger
aldine, see lijtle of him. Together
they live in a modest four-room
apartment on Washington Square
in Greenwich Village, heart of
New York's artistic life.
lie. hardly belongs in that set
ting. Because .of his eye trouble
nn reads little. In music he con-
ran tell -whether it is rtrnducingffinr himself to occasional popu-
srvft-al kinds, is .i compound of Hut iodine 'products taken in
ioiTine .joined to something clst.,ternslly may produce undesir-
nnciure oi iooin-is noi laxeniaoie etiecls as well as dcsirablea few years ago :ffid perhaps
internally but sgmcff the itides jones. Their conliifawl se beyoiffl today in some p!ces it is com-
8 terA.im point (which Viesjmon prn:io to put alincturf of
gootl or harm would seem to be
rather a risky procedure.
.This bric discussion of iodine
should not be eiVed. without re
ferring to the use'of lincture.oi
iodine on the'kin. At least up to
limine or the lodide have;frnm pei'-on to person) may re-j iodine
pearance in
Ofts, runni
certain, definit medical" lSes,
thougHjorif) are still snnre sii
t.us .gaps in our knowledge of
theiremctios in the body. 6
o Iodine preparations ave long
had use0in ceslait forms of
toxM goite particularly in pr
paring persons with this dijjaso
for operatn. Oi some cases of
avhma and Indeed in some other iodiiO
suit in irritation of the
mueoi membranes
on almost any ind of
skiji and iin disorder.
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Although Wometunes desirame.
This nvbe shown by the ap-1 tincture gt iodine can imfate the
fading k' specialist
me th. he hjd bou'(
trouble trySig to treat
skin rnics, inflamed
ing of the ooseOlaryn
ithft- .Miplfti&nt s?mp-
a fading
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cs wiicn trouble lrwig
the skin of those w ha had -eated
inemselves with, tincture of m-
n'i repealed piat0ifdine a he did Vth the origi.OI
ins, and oth
turns. It can r'n result in pirn
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lar singing, with Geraldine
accomptishjd classical pianist, at
the keyboard. Baseball, boxing
and swimming are -his .keenest
outside interest, He doesn't own
a car,, though his new post as
New York Secretary of State now
puts one ,t( his disposal. (
JieSapio hasn't bid vacation
in0five years and it's a good bet
he n'take one between now
and ro'vrJ.Dn pmr in 1956. For,
his ambition is stij unsat''ic
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