Flashback: Nancy Pelosi's Corrupt Father; The Baltimore Mayor Who Wanted to Tax Free Speech

Flashback. Nancy Pelosi's corrupt father, Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. Here's a New York Times obituary:

Mr. D'Alesandro presided over a period of rebuilding of his city, opening Friendship International Airport and the 17-mile Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and starting an urban renewal project. Mayor Missed Orioles' Return

To Baltimoreans he will always be the Mayor who brought back the major league baseball franchise they had lost 50 years earlier.

But when the first ball was thrown out in the enlarged Memorial Stadium for the Orioles' opener in 1954, Mayor D'Alesandro had to miss the occasion. He was in the hospital for four months with exhaustion brought on by personal troubles and inquiries into municipal corruption.

Here's Time on Nancy's father from 1958:

Explaining graciously that business needs "a shot in the arm," Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. last month urged the city council to repeal Baltimore's tax on newspaper and TV advertising (TIME, Nov. 18), which Mayor Tommy had himself rammed through last fall.

Nancy sure knows what a "favor file" is.