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...battling banking, a Texan wife (Dorothy Arnold Yerby), a distaste for liquor and a profound belief in the principles of the Democratic party. Last month, he surprised Chicago and surprised himself by going to Houston as a delegate-at-large from Illinois. Hidden among the Irish cohorts of Boss Brennan, Teetotaler Traylor studied the party, Al Smith, Tammany. Last week, he explained: "The drawback to politics in this country is that business men do not take enough interest in it. ... Professional politicians are necessary. . . . The Democratic party is now in the hands of a conservative element...
...State-determinism, against prohibition, for temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
Close behind urbane Olvany marches genial George E. Brennan of Chicago. His cohorts (O'Briens, Mclnerneys, Sullivans, McDonoughs, Quinlans, Whealans) are a legacy from Boss Roger Sullivan. Says Brennan: "The job of boss was a big jackpot. I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." Once, also, he was the only man present in an emergency when two cars of a moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma...
Democrat Newton D. Baker Bernard M. Baruch George Brennan Carter Glass...
...daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall, many a bigwig Democrat was in Albany to toast the bride and smoke a cigar and have a chat-Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey, Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, Norman E. Mack of Buffalo and the Bosses of Syracuse and Utica...