Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed and his Campaign Expenditures Committee, and who may have to answer to the Senate on charges of contempt of court, are: Samuel Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf of Senatorial Candidate Vare, Pennsylvania slush prizewinner...
...Irish of Boston, the most potent Democratic vote-getter in New England, clashes with Senator Butler, prosperous-looking business man, chairman of the Republican National Committee, beloved of President Coolidge and Frank W. Stearns. In Illinois where a most picturesque campaign is being acted by George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Wet and Democratic, and Frank L. Smith, public utility darling. A round-faced, Irish nine-year-old chortled on first looking into McGuffey's Second Reader. His little eyes bulged, his pudgy hands curiously, gleefully smudged the pages. Now, at 61, Democratic Senatorial Candidate George E. Brennan told the Illinois...
...guidance of "Boss" Roger Sullivan, became the heir apparent. "I can't say I deserved Roger Sullivan's mantle," said Brennan, "It just fell to me. . . . The job of boss was a big jackpot and I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." "Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party...
Businessman-Boss Brennan is getting mellow. He is playing his last big game, "betting his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of prohibition." The voters perk up their ears and open their eyes. Now they can see how this backroom worker of cigar stores and old saloons performs. He feeds their curiosity with garrulous anecdotes, he says little of economic significances...
...Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen. Sixty percent of this hereditary strain are idiots, imbeciles, harlots, murderers, thieves, perverts, felons, loons, sots, paupers, maniacs, etc. The Jukes have cost the government $1,308,000 in 75 years. "Boss" Brennan is no Juke...