Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was not enough to blow down 62-year-old Edward Joseph Kelly, six-year Mayor of Chicago and co-Boss of the Democratic machine. Without once using the word "Green" during his entire campaign, Ed Kelly collected 822,469 votes, which were more than anyone of any party had ever polled in a Chicago mayoralty election...
Chief significance of the election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois...
Newshawks knew that income tax evasion charges against William R. Skidmore, politically potent Chicago gambling tycoon, was one of the cases on Mr. Murphy's mind. They also knew that similar charges, of great magnitude, were being pressed in Kansas City against an even greater overlord than Tammany's Jimmy Hines. Three days after Mr. Murphy's visit, the Kansas City sensation was sprung: U. S. District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan obtained the indictment of Thomas J. Pendergast, a senior U. S. Democratic boss. Charge: Cheating the U. S. of income taxes...
...policyholders, 50% to the companies; the other 30% was to defray litigation costs. What the grand jury believed last week when it indicted Boss Pendergast and Mr. O'Malley, was that a $447,000 slush fund handed out for the insurance companies by a man named Street in Chicago, was split between Pendergast, O'Malley and a few others. Messrs. Pendergast & O'Malley posted $10,000 bail each. Said Boss Pendergast: "There's nothing the matter with...
Full of interesting detail, the biography notes that all the Goodman kids drank coffee as soon as they were weaned. Milk cost too much for a Chicago garment-worker's family. Goodman recalls that he first met the late great Trumpeter Beiderbecke on Aug. 8, 1923, because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed...