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...that brought him into his present nerve-shredding name-calling conflict with Democrat Dilworth...
Similarly, Dilworth is too smart to mention specific increases, says candidly: "That would be like cutting your own throat." His main pitch has been to point to his own really outstanding record in revitalizing Philadelphia. He also fends off any ties to the Lawrence administration. "This state has been inflicted for years with miserable state governments," says Dilworth. "It's been the history of this state to load up the payroll with political hacks who got miserable salaries and stole the rest...
...their bloody battle, both Scranton and Dilworth tend to make each other out as the worst sort of political brigand. Yet neither is anything of the sort, and indeed they have much in common. Both have deep family roots in Pennsylvania. Both were born to wealth. Both are highly educated-and their training includes graduate degrees in the hard school of Pennsylvania politics. Finally, both Dilworth and Scranton are deeply concerned about their state's situation...
...Other Side. The Dilworths were in Pennsylvania even before the Scrantons. They also had a town named after them: Dilworthtown. in Lancaster County. By the time Dick Dilworth was born, on Aug. 29, 1898, the family had moved to Pittsburgh, established a profitable iron firm. Like that of the Scrantons, the Dilworth family fortune was founded on turning out iron for the state's rapidly expanding railroads...
...Dilworth graduated with honors from Yale Law School, then built a highly successful practice as a Philadelphia trial lawyer. He specialized in libel law-and it is one of his great political assets that he knows precisely how far he can legally go in his assaults on his opponents. A Marine hero again in World War II, Dilworth returned to Philadelphia to lash out at the Republican corruption that had gripped the city for 63 years. From street corners he shouted the names of madams, gamblers, crooks-and the names of the cops and officials who protected them...