Word: heeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded to promote is returning to its rightful prominence. The beetling brow and clenched fist of the ward-heeler are lost on the radio audience; his persuasion must now be based entirely on what the says, not on what he does, and such demands an ability to express ideas in clear spoken English...
...Publisher Knox stands for social, justice and collective bargaining, but not as the New Deal understands them. What does that mean? Every ward-heeler who has ever run for office has campaigned for the Rights of Man: not until the Roosevelt years have such banalities become meaningful, articulate...
...selection of Ivy Orator, we must go further. Not only must he be a man naturally fitted for making a humorous speech, but he must be trained to the point of highest efficiency in a cram school for brainless clowning. For professor I nominate the heeler who wrote the CRIMSON editorial board. I have failed. It is impossible to carry the jest further than you have already carried it in yesterday's editorial. The system of elections that has chosen for Ivy Orator such men as Loftus Becker, Stephen Stackpole, and Vincent Palmer needs no improvements. W. H. Lewis...
...Dealers were not the only victors in last fortnight's great Democratic Sweep. Many a humble ward-heeler, many a red-nosed boss of a local machine, beamed and burbled. For there were few places in the land where the New Deal's triumph was not a golden benison to Democratic political machines. No less than 25 Democratic Governors were elected to supply their Democratic followers with patronage, the stuff that machines are made of. For all of them it was a glorious victory...
...close Tammany connections. Unanimously, this Tammany type deplores the bad management which has brought the 128-year-old Hall into the shadow of its fifth reformation. This sorry plight, they claim, is due to the unfortunate personality and training of John Francis Curry. When Curry was a young ward heeler on the West Side he worked for a telegraph company instead of tending bar, as did most incipient Tammany officials. Lacking that broadening experience, he was suddenly shoved into the Leader's office in 1929 at the age of 56, too late in life for a district politician...