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...WillB Hadley of Philadelphia was a shy master of municipal finance when he picked up a flamboyant jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson to dramatize him for political purposes. After Philadelphia's late Republican Boss Vare refused them nominations for City Treasurer and Controller respectively in 1933, Political Partners Hadley and Wilson helped junk the Republican machine by winning their jobs on the Democratic-Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket. This year their friendship turned to bitter rivalry when each one decided to go after the Republican nomination for Mayor (TIME, Sept. 16). Philadelphians, curious to know which member...
Last week Philadelphia Republicans went to their primary polls, gave Politician Wilson 168,106 votes to Student Hadley's 145,205. Sheriff Richard Weglein, who claimed to be "the only real Republican of the lot," ran a poor third. As expected, Democratic Boss John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, contractor and famed oarsman, took the Democratic nomination for Mayor hands down. His winning ticket-mate for District Attorney was Curtis Bok, liberal young grandson of the late Publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis...
...political Twins Hadley and Wilson hoped to force Boss Vare to nominate them in 1933, respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...
Partner Wilson might have tried to seize the Democratic nomination except that Democratic Boss Kelly got there ahead of him. So while Partner Hadley rounded up support of the Penrose faction, Partner Wilson rounded up support of the Vare faction and began to make things...
...during which he investigated munition plants for the Department of Justice, he tried several unsuccessful business ventures, hit a low in 1926 as investigator for a religious group prosecuting concessionaires at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition who broke Sunday closing laws. The following year he joined forces with WillB Hadley and his rise began...