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Last week, with a municipal election coming up on Nov. 4, the voters were getting an unprecedented shaking-up. A political novice named Richardson Dilworth, candidate for mayor on the Democratic ticket, was giving the slothful Republican machine the roughest pre-election working-over it had had in many a year...
...Fighter. Until he started campaigning in mid-September, few Philadelphians had heard of Dick Dilworth. At 49, he is a handsome, socialite lawyer with a family of eight children (four by his first wife, two by his second, two stepchildren). He fought with the Marines in both World Wars. Between wars, he finished his undergraduate work at Yale (class of '21), stayed on to get a law degree, and, in 1926, settled down to practice in Philadelphia. He subsequently specialized in libel law. Among his clients: the Curtis Publishing Co., the Inquirer, N. W. Ayer...
...Dilworth, who heretofore had done no more than dabble in politics as a Democratic speechmaker in presidential campaigns, got the mayoralty nomination largely because none of the Democratic regulars were anxious for the job. The party's fortunes were at a low ebb. In 1946, the Philadelphia organization had lost all six of the city's congressional seats. It had little hope, less money and no newspaper support. Even labor was cool...
...Barricades. But Dick Dilworth came out slugging. He hired investigators to rake into the Republican muck, rounded up a bevy of girls to wear "Dilworth for Mayor" streamers across their bosoms, and rented two sound trucks. He scheduled four or five street-corner meetings a night, hoping to cover each of the city's 52 wards at least twice...
...stay-late guest at a White House press conference (the Cleveland Press's Preacher-Columnist Dilworth Lupton) Franklin Roosevelt confided that he wished reporters wouldn't use that term New Deal. There is no need of a New Deal now, said the President. He hoped somebody would think up a catchy way to sloganize...