Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewd Boss Jake Arvey had wanted to line up a more seasoned vote-getting combination. But Senator Scott Lucas had refused to run for the governorship; as the Senate's only Midwestern Democrat, he thought he could do his party more good in Washington. Chicago's able Businessman-Mayor Martin Kennelly had also turned down the governorship post...
Last week the city council met to choose a new mayor from among its own members. There was little doubt that the job would go to a Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...Charlie Taft who placed Democrat Cash's name in nomination. A few minutes later, Republican Councilman Gordon Scherer made the seemingly futile gesture of nominating incumbent Mayor Carl W. Rich. That done, he turned on Charlie Taft and shouted...
...Democrat Cash was elected...
Only conceivable democrat among them was the Ko-Ko, Martyn Green. Green's plebeian shenanigans evoked, as of yore, the loudest applause, the greatest lifting of eyebrows. His adroitness, especially his scissors-like legwork, was beyond dispute. But whether all his mugging, prancing and capering was entirely seemly-or entirely successful-continued to be disputed...