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...Government? "Clean it out and get rid of it . . . Weed out and fire any incompetent, disloyal or dishonest employee . . . Easy as pie." With McCarran's help, he brushed off, as mere feuding, some caustic testimony leveled at him by his Philadelphia enemy and fellow Democrat District Attorney Richardson Dilworth. (Said Dilworth of McGranery: "He would be most political . . . Anything would go for his political friends, anything to garrote his political enemies...
...asbestos suit. Fires were immediately lighted under him. Some Congressmen said they would try to hold up his confirmation as Attorney General until they had questioned him thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged off the assault: "If the Senate feels I am crooked, or it has no confidence in my abilities, it won't confirm...
...Philadelphia, Bulletin (circ. 697,718) Columnist Earl Selby, 34, also played detective. A Republican politico, William F. Meade, was mysteriously shot recently in the lobby of a small Philadelphia hotel. To Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, the case was clear-cut. Meade was shot, said he, by Virginia Carroll, who was with Meade at the time, and with whom he had been "arguing and drinking." Meade insisted the shot came from outside the hotel. But Dilworth offered as evidence a bullet-shattered pane of glass which, he said, FBI tests proved "conclusively" had been broken from the inside...
...other, and police assumed the thick putty was on the outside. Selby checked the lobby windows, discovered each had the telltale paint smear on the outside and heavy putty on the inside. Last week he wrote that the bullet might have come from outside the hotel. After new tests Dilworth announced meekly: the tests "appear to absolve" Virginia Carroll. Said Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister: "Selby really believes those plays and movies about reporters confounding...
...Philadelphia, thousands of Republican voters helped elect the first Demo cratic mayor in 67 years. In a kind of deathbed repentance, the once-invincible Republican machine had nominated the Rev. Daniel Poling, a famed Baptist clergyman, for the mayoralty. He was decisively beaten by Joseph S. Clark Jr. Richardson Dilworth, spearhead of the Democratic uprising, who was defeated for mayor four years ago after a vigorous campaign, was elected district attorney...