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Democrats, who first cracked the Republican stronghold by winning four important City Hall jobs in 1949, nominated City Controller Joseph S. Clark Jr. for mayor, and City Treasurer Richardson Dilworth, a socialite turned Fair Deal street orator, for district attorney. Despite Dan Poling's respected name, there is still a chance that in November Philadelphia will elect its first Democratic mayor in 67 years...
...triumphant Democrats were led by Richardson Dilworth, firebrand Yale-trained lawyer, ex-Marine major, and local leader of the Fair Dealing Americans for Democratic Action (A.D.A.). Working with him was Joseph Sill Clark Jr., a Chestnut Hill socialite. As treasurer and controller respectively, two new Democratic officials will take charge of the city's much-abused purse...
Republicans, trying to reform their party under fire, had ditched the machine professionals, persuaded four outstanding amateurs in politics to be their candidates (TIME, Sept. 26). Less wisely, the Republicans launched what the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer labeled a "false" and "vicious" campaign against Dilworth, trying to prove that he was a crony of Communists. Philadelphia's two major news papers, both staunchly Republican, endorsed Dilworth...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Philadelphia, Mayor Bernard ("Barney") Samuel's pachydermatous machine was too much for crusading Dick Dilworth, the Democratic candidate (TIME, Oct. 27). The machine delivered the vote in the solid downtown wards and buried Dilworth* under a plurality of more than 90,000 votes. Republican control of Philadelphia, undisturbed for 63 years, was secure for another four...