Word: eyeteeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cracker-Barrel Education. What the politicians did not know when they put him up for Governor was that Wilbur Cross had cut his eyeteeth while listening to political gossip as a clerk in a country store. One of Cross's earliest recollections is of overhearing a confidential conversation between Republican and Democratic town committee chairmen back in the vil lage of Gurleyville, in northeastern Connecticut. The leaders of the rival parties had just finished buying 54 votes at $5 a head, and each leader had kept $150 of the cash sent from Hartford headquarters as a "legitimate expense...