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...when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
...point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best of the deal...
Idle Whiskey. He became Democratic leader by wresting control of the assembly district from one James A. McQuade, member of a family known as the "thirtyfour starving McQuades." He ran for office (alderman, sheriff, etc.) more than 30 times, and "was sent back with glorious colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might...
Before the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries, admirers of Tom Dewey sarcastically accused Harold Stassen of campaigning like a county sheriff. Now, before Oregon's May 21 primary, Tom Dewey was running like an alderman who wanted to meet all of Oregon's 630,000 voters personally...
Last November Coulter bought a roomy house on fashionable Wellington Crescent. Last week, when Coulter asked Alderman Charles Simonite to fill his place for ten days; his city knew what...