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RICHARDSON DILWORTH Mayor Philadelphia...
...eliminate the slums, lure back the whites and break the white noose, Dilworth will be the first mayor to solve an urban problem vexing most major northern cities. Philadelphia Negroes are fully behind him. All he needs now is a good, heavy concentration of similarly dedicated whites. Says Dick Dilworth: "It's damned serious...
...Mayor Dilworth outspoke himself from Pennsylvania's 1958 governor's race last week by publicly advocating U.S. recognition of Communist China ("After all," he told a women's Democratic club in Washington, "Communist China is China itself"). With that scarcely opportune statement, Dilworth instantly found himself besieged by I) Philadelphia's strong Democratic machine-led by Congressman William J. Green Jr. and City Democratic Leader James Clark-which had been fighting to keep the mayor from announcing for the governor's race, and 2) Pittsburgh's mayor and Democratic Kingmaker David Lawrence, a longtime...
Quick support for Brigitte's right to be shown came from Mayor Richardson Dilworth,* longtime political foe of Fellow Democrat Blanc. Cracked Dilworth: "Mr. Blanc thinks he's going to get all the votes of the women's clubs by denouncing sin." In turn, Blanc darkly noted that Dilworth's former law partners were representing the film distributor, declared: "In my opinion, the mayor is using his elective office to help his old law firm...
...other news of Philadelphia's Dilworth, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...