Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas, turned in big Republican leads from New York's bedroom counties all across the U.S. Even in deep-Democratic Georgia, Atlanta's three suburban "fingerbowl" districts gave Ike a 3-1 lead. Said Chicago's Democratic Boss Jack Arvey (after the. Democrats had lost his Cook County): "The suburbs were murder...
...which passed the millions who were politically organized in the great Democratic city machines. Appomattox and Castle Garden helped the Democratic Party survive through the Republican decades between the Civil War and 1932. Now the big city machines are shot: Chicago's Jack Arvey could not even carry Cook County; the Tammany Tiger is a sick old alley cat; Boss Hague's Jersey City baronage is gone. This decline has been going on for 40 years, and there is little possibility that the city machines can be put together again. Millions of the immigrants have entered the American...
There were three big question marks in the westward advances. The first was Illinois, Governor Stevenson's home state. The governor was carrying Chicago as any good Democrat should, but his total margin in Cook County looked so small that he could not possibly overbalance the strong Republican vote downstate. (Stevenson's hand-picked successor as the Democratic candidate for governor was running ahead of Stevenson who in 1948 had run nearly half a million votes ahead of Harry Truman.) In Michigan, heavily...
Jake Arvey, Stevenson's faithful servant and boss of Cook County, had a more practical rationalization than Steve Mitchell. Said Arvey: "It seems like reactionary Democrats combined with Republicans to beat us." Overlooked fact staring Arvey in the face: all of Stevenson's electoral vote was coming from the Fair-Deal-hating South (plus West Virginia...
...been a sheep drover, navvy, gold prospector, ship's cook, waiter, locksmith, umbrella mender, a seller of fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said...