Word: dilworth
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After months of infighting, the king makers of both parties finally settled last week on their candidates for Governor. For the Democrats, it was Socialite Yaleman Richardson Dilworth, 63, who resigned after six years as mayor of Philadelphia to seek the nomination. The Republicans picked Socialite Yaleman William W. Scranton, 44, a first-term U.S. Representative who defeated an incumbent Democratic Congressman in 1960 while Jack Kennedy carried the state...
...soundly trouncing Republican Harold Stassen. Dilworth energetically carried out the cleansweep urban renewal programs begun under Clark, made his own mark as an all-out liberal reformer...
...Marine Corps veteran of both world wars, Mayor Dilworth, 63, was elected city treasurer in 1949, moved up to district attorney two years later in a reform sweep that put Joseph S. Clark in office as the first Democratic mayor of Philadelphia in 67 years. When Clark went to the U.S. Senate in 1956, Dilworth took over as mayor. He won re-election...
Then last year some flaws appeared in the image. City Controller Alexander Hemphill uncovered a batch of municipal misdemeanors, described by Dilworth (who nonetheless fired all the city employees involved) as "penny-ante stuff." Dilworth then took off for a round-the-world trip. By the time he came back, a Philadelphia contractor stood accused of profiting by $800,000 on a''$1,000,000 contract for city transit repairs; the same contractor had sent the city treasurer a Christmas bottle of whisky, cheerily wrapped in $100 bills. Dilworth, never touched personally by the scandals, admitted that...
...passage of months took some of the sting out of the scandals, and last week Dilworth found his way out of another ticklish situation: he had just achieved a hiatus in a bitter 4½-month strike by the International Association of Machinists against Yale & Towne, lock manufacturers. Basking in this glow, Dilworth announced his forthcoming resignation as mayor, preparatory to declaring for Harrisburg next month...