Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Micajah Daugherty, President Harding's Attorney-General, the man who, as boss of the Ohio Gang, was second only to Albert Bacon Fall in bringing disrepute to the Harding Administration, stepped off a boat from Europe last week. Interviewed by newsgatherers, he said: "I've done my share for the Republican Party. I'm through with politics and won't take part in this campaign...
...Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten for his own office, last week, by Nelson Schwab, a son of the late Dr. Louis Schwab, Cincinnati Mayor in the gang-ridden days of the late Boss Rud K. Hynicka. All but one of the Taft ticketmates were beaten, too. People said it was because the Citizens' Republican Committee "slung mud," i.e., preached reform so militantly that its foes became goodfellow martyrs...
George Washington Olvany, under the careful guidance of Governor Smith, has succeeded Tammany Boss Murphy. Frank Hague is in power in New Jersey...
...will be difficult to replace Boss Brennan of Illinois. An Irishman, plump and nimble-witted, a poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
Died. George E. Brennan, 63, Democratic boss of Illinois; of septic poisoning; in Chicago...