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Come for the Ride. Finnegan's own Pennsylvania was the first hot spot. The day after Truman's flare-up, President David McDonald of the United Steelworkers went on network television and loudly announced that he too was for Harriman. McDonald's steelworkers are mighty in Pennsylvania, and some Philadelphia delegates were raring to go with him. The Pennsylvania delegation caucused, and Dave McDonald made a fiery pitch for Harriman support. But Finnegan's protege, Governor George Leader, laid out the political facts of life. Snapped he: if any delegate hoped to do any future business...
...fanned out among the other combustible delegations. Arizona started to burn; it was cooled after a perilously close call. Kansas seemed ready to go; the fire fighters won again. Even at midweek the faction-torn Maryland delegation began thinking about switching to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington. Jim Finnegan got the word, made an emergency call. "Boys," said Finnegan, by that time on his third pack of Old Golds, "that's all right if it's the best you can do. You can come along later−just for the ride. But just think how good...
Gradually Finnegan & Co. discovered that there was very little left of the Truman-Harriman campaign but glowing embers. Clearly it was high time to light a few bright Stevenson torches to get the parade going again. The first bright glare came from Michigan...
...engineered Adlai Stevenson's campaign through the primaries and into the convention is now setting a course for the White House: James Aloysius Finnegan...
Career: At 24 entered Depression politics, within a year was chairman of his ward's executive committee. In 1939 Philadelphia's Congressman (later Senator) Frank Myers made Finnegan his secretary. Enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942 (air combat intelligence), was discharged a lieutenant colonel in 1946. Thrusting once again into home-town politics, he was elected his party's city chairman, built his success by staying mostly in the background and pushing attractive candidates, e.g., Philadelphia Mayors Joe Clark (1951) and Richardson Dilworth (1955). In 1954 he helped persuade an unknown but respected chicken farmer...