Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator) Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, and had been chosen by Theodore Roosevelt as his political manager for the campaign of 1920. After Roosevelt's death, he managed General Wood's campaign for a time before he fell out with the Wood supporters. He finally went to Chicago...
...will be the next President. That is Nick Longworth, the Speaker. He and his cronies run the House by dint of goodwill and numbers -because, you see, politics in the House isn't half so individualistic as in the Senate. Everybody likes Nick. He is the likable boss, although that lean stiff man, Tilson of Connecticut, bears the formal title of Republican leader. The impressive old man over there is Burton of Ohio. He used to be a Senator, but now is back in his old haunts. For all his 74 years, he is astonishingly able, active...
...issue is support of the Administration. The second candidate is Governor Pinchot, fighting for nomination on the ground that he is Dryer than Pepper. He has a good bit of the church vote and also of the miner vote-important in Pennsylvania. The third is Congressman William S. Vare, boss of the Philadelphia machine, out and out Wet, who hopes to gain at least part of the miner vote and the urban vote by his Wetness. The possible permutations and combinations arising out of this triangle make the issue difficult to predict and full of weight. Either, Pepper or Vare...
...East to the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the B. & O., the country has been watching this man. He was known to control the Delaware & Hudson with its 30-odd affiliated companies in the East. In the Middle West he was chairman of the Kansas City Southern, boss of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and of the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"). Of the latter road Edwin Gould was nominally chairman, the last of the Goulds to hold such a position...
...Republican nomination for Senator from Pennsylvania heads the list of spring political battles. Pinchot has the most ideas - some of them considered a little loose. Pepper has the most dignity - now and again a little heavy. Both Pinchot and Pepper are considered much more respectable than Vare, but Boss Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker...