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Word: crumlish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crumlish Jr., his former boss, but also inveighed against Mayor James Tate, whom he branded as the "dumbest mayor ever in a big city." Beating his Democratic opponent by 325,395 votes to 289,174, Specter became the first Republican candidate to win a major municipal office in Philadelphia in a dozen years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Negro's New Force | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...week the system was labeled "an iceberg of corruption" in a 515-page report compiled by Pennsylvania's Assistant Attorney General Arlen Specter, 35, a liberal Democrat turned liberal Republican, who also happens to be running for election as Philadelphia's district attorney against Incumbent James C. Crumlish Jr. Predictably, Democrat Crumlish blasted Specter's report as purely political. All the same, it was a well-documented shocker-the work of 27 state investigators who toiled for ten months at the request of Attorney General Walter E. Alessandroni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: Philadelphia's Magisterial Mess | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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