Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, Mayor Bernard ("Barney") Samuel's pachydermatous machine was too much for crusading Dick Dilworth, the Democratic candidate (TIME, Oct. 27). The machine delivered the vote in the solid downtown wards and buried Dilworth* under a plurality of more than 90,000 votes. Republican control of Philadelphia, undisturbed for 63 years, was secure for another four...
...asked that the 17 defendants be prohibited from acting both as adviser and underwriter for any company, or from having a representative on the board of such a company. Most important, the Government asked that the nine largest firms (Morgan Stanley; First Boston; Dillon, Read; Kuhn, Loeb; Blyth; Smith, Barney; Lehman Bros.; Harriman Ripley; Goldman, Sachs) be prevented from participating in any securities-selling syndicate in which any of the others participates...
...Morgan Stanley & Co., Lehman Bros., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Smith, Barney & Co., Glore, Forgan & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., Goldman, Sachs & Co., White, Weld & Co., Eastman, Dillon & Co., Drexel & Co., The First Boston Corp., Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., Blyth & Co., Inc., Harriman Ripley & Co., Inc., Stone & Webster Securities Corp., Harris, Hall & Co., and Union Securities Corp...
...first haymakers were aimed directly at his opponent, Mayor Bernard Samuel. Dilworth charged that 67-year-old Barney Samuel, a city payroller since 1903, tolerated bookmaking even at City Hall. He charged that City Hall workers and some merchants are annually dunned to buy the mayor a birthday present-e.g., a station wagon and a motorboat. Under Samuel, said Dilworth, a police inspector could easily pick up $30,000 a year in graft-and some inspectors were doing it. As for solving the city's acute sewage, parking, paving, housing and airport problems, the mayor has not even...
...reply, confident Barney Samuel, who is not wasting much energy campaigning, cried: "Mud-slinger." The response of voters was much livelier. Attendance at Dilworth street rallies zoomed from 50 to 3,000 (for one rally last week, a crowd of 7,500 jammed the busy intersection of Chestnut and Broad). Dilworth himself was not the only attraction. At rallies he was often preceded by Hegeman's string band, one of Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked...