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Philadelphia's Democratic Mayor Richardson Dilworth has long hankered after the Governor's chair in Harrisburg. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1950, but lost to Republican John S. Fine in the general election. In 1958, partly because of his support of U.S. diplomatic recognition of Communist China, Pennsylvania's Democratic leaders dumped him as a candidate for Governor. But last week Dick Dilworth was ready to try again. He announced his resignation as mayor, effective Feb. 12-a step that he must take, under the Philadelphia city charter, before he can stand for another office...
Henry Steele Commager. Admitting that his inspiring peroration had been lifted virtually verbatim-and without permission-from a New York Times piece by the Amherst authority, Yale Lawyer Dilworth alibied feebly: "Professor Commager's fine article said everything I wanted to say at Independence Hall but said it much better than I could possibly have ever said...
...bigger. Last winter Hemphill's auditors discovered that an automobile dealer had set up an elaborate shell game with a possible profit of $40,000 by selling new cars to the city, then buying back used cars at cut-rate prices after they had been conveniently "re-evaluated." Dilworth fired the officials involved in the deal, but he was still unimpressed by Hemphill's investigations. "It strikes me as a lot of penny-ante stuff," he said in April-and left town on a round-the-world trip. While Dilworth was gone, Hemphill kept digging. He struck...
Last month, Mayor Dilworth hurried back to Philadelphia, ruthlessly fired every accused employee, no matter how lightly tainted. Three clerks were discharged for accepting $25 to $50 Christmas gifts. Last week, when Travis announced that he had given Public Property Commissioner William Gennetti a $50 golf bag, Gennetti denied the charge. Dilworth agreed that Gennetti was probably innocent, but accepted his resignation just the same and replaced him with a man who vowed to work without salary...
...exposures, it seemed that nearly everybody in Philadelphia wanted to get into the act. The local press gleefully joined the chase, rocked the city with new revelations of corruption. The Republican Alliance, a G.O.P. reform group, hired three professional investigators to uncover more scandals. In court last week, Dilworth argued tearfully that there was no need for a grand jury investigation. The municipal government, he pleaded, could clean up its own messes. "We were lax," he admitted privately. "We got so wrapped up in pushing our programs that we just assumed our civil service was fine." But in the welter...