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...Sapio got into politics. "I never planned politics," he says. "You just find yourself in an environment. You get deeper and deeper. You get activated." As an activated young man De Sapio made himself useful around the Huron Club, long the Tammany stamping ground and ruling place of the Finn family, beginning with "Battery Dan" Finn, then his son, then his son's son, Sheriff Dan Finn. "I carried coal baskets around the neighborhood. I used to go down to the markets, let the merchants know it was the Democratic Party calling, and get them to give us turkeys...
...Sheriff Finn wangled De Sapio a job as secretary to City Judge Vincent S. Lippe at $3,500 a year, and that put De Sapio in a position to marry Theresa Natale (her friends call her Tess, her husband calls her "Girlie"), a pretty secretary from Hoboken whom he had met at a dance several years before. By now, De Sapio was obviously a rising young pol, and Sheriff Finn, a pallid imitation of tough old Battery Dan, was on the skids. In 1939, egged on by Huronites dissatisfied with Finn's sorry leadership, De Sapio founded...
...sounding jobs-without power-to keep them happy; something with a nice fancy-sounding title, like Superintendent of Sanitation, that an Italian would love." But district leader? Never. Tammany's executive committee refused to seat De Sapio. When De Sapio's followers picketed both the hall and Finn's office, Finn cried foul. "It's in line with all the tactics they've been using," he said. Then, darkly: "I might even say it smells strongly of Communism...
...Sapio fought Finn for district leader again in 1941, won again, and was again refused Tammany's recognition. In 1943, with another De Sapio victory, the Tammany sachems at last gave in (partly because Finn had become involved in a factional dispute with Tammany Leader Mike Kennedy). That year De Sapio took his place on the Tammany Hall executive committee. Within six years he was the Boss...
...moved into a house that was supposed to be haunted. Sure enough, ghostly sounds wakened the couple, and Mrs. Sirpo suggested that he investigate. "No, my love," said he. "You go; your English is better." Money Back. The girls take their tour with all the seriousness that a dedicated Finn and a Presbyterian education can instill. "It's like a mission," said...