Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those rare bosses capable of combining a strong party organization scandal-free with a administration, progressive, sat in relatively the Governor's mansion. Richardson Dilworth presided in Philadelphia's city hall continuing the reforms started by Joseph Clark. before he moved on to the Senate. William Green the Elder ran the party in Philadelphia, and on Election Day his well-financed cadres produced the plurality that John F. Kennedy needed to carry the state...
...Lawrence and the elder Green are deard, and have left no heirs capable of ruling the realm. Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh and Mayor James Tate of Philadelphia can barely control their own baronies, let alone work effectively on the statewide level...
...Where Green was smart enough to combine old-fashioned Irish-ward techniques with modern polling and other, newer devices. Barr, 62, and Tate, 58, have encouraged an anachronistic clubhouse atmosphere that is repugnant to the party's younger members and to most Negroes. During his re-election campaign, Tate actually bragged: "Eight of my ten department heads have beei in city government since the days of Clark and Dilworth...
NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y.--Ours is not a romantic age, and so it's hardly surprising that, except for his green jump suit, Philip (Phil) McGuire with his broad face and fading hairline looked about as ordinary as any other of the dozen or so people sipping beer in a Long Island bar on a hot afternoon last week. Like them, he was relaxing from work, but his line of business was perhaps slightly more demanding than theirs. McGuire had just returned from two months of flying arms and food into the beleaguered African state of Biafra...
Like the prostitute with the heart of gold, the soldier who quakes at the sight of senseless human misery (see the Green Berets) is becoming a wellknown cliche, but McGuire slides into this type, probably not as a sham. He is more of a soldier of fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious...