Word: heeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replying amid wild applause ("Pour it on, George!") at the first convention of the merged New York A.F.L.-C.I.O., Meany last week dismissed Summerfield as "a little ward heeler from Detroit." Then he made his threat: "I have always said that we do not want our own political party, but if we have to do that to lick the people who want to drag us back to the past, we will start our own political party and do a good...
...Yale Daily News and its heeler organization, the Yale police force, sadistically continued their traditional suppression of freedom of the press Saturday. Editors of the OCD, who apparently did not feel physically competent to stop New Haven distribution of the CRIMSON, had the Yale police confiscate a few hundred copies of the regular Saturday edition...
Died. Joseph Patrick ("Holy Joe") Boyle, 65, bland, blue-eyed longtime ward heeler for Memphis' E. H. ("Boss") Crump, who became police commissioner in 1940, gave the old steamboat town the cold-water blues by kicking out its gamblers, shutting down its bordellos; after a stroke; in Memphis...
...years, from his goulash days as a ward heeler in Cleveland's working-class districts to the governor's mansion in Columbus, Lausche (rhymes with how she) has successfully violated the ground rules and spectacularly bucked bosses, bigots and big shots. Nearly every time that he has run for office Ohio's tabulating machines have clanked out record-breaking jackpots...
...gifts, e.g., 40 sets of sterling silver, at his daughter's wedding was estimated at $700,000. Tweed gave lavishly to charity: once, when approached by a ward leader for a donation to the poor, Tweed wrote a check for $5,000. "Oh Boss," said the ward heeler, half jokingly, "put another naught to it." "Well, well, here goes," said Tweed, and upped the ante...