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...odds on a Dilworth victory, prohibitive at the outset, plummeted daily. The Republicans still appeared likely to pull through on the strength of their customarily overpowering majorities in 20 downtown and river wards-the "controlled" wards. But Dick Dilworth was giving them a scare. Said one unhappy ward heeler: "It's getting so they're afraid to take a bet at City Hall...
...Lincoln Downs race track (McGrath reputedly has about $8 million). His talent for politics is as well developed as his ambition and business shrewdness. He started ringing doorbells for the Democratic Party before he was out of Providence College, has held almost every party job from ward heeler up. He was his state's governor three times. He demonstrated his vote-getting talent in 1944, when he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Franklin Roosevelt. In the Senate, McGrath has been serious, hardworking, unafraid of the toughest Republican jousters, and New Dealish...
...been authorized. But Congress still had to appropriate the money, and John Taber was going to finger every dollar. He denounced the bill; he tilted furiously at the "Marshall approach," which he claimed even Marshall could not explain. He likened U.S. efforts in Europe to "a ward heeler trying to catch the floaters with a $5 bill...
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...apologetic First Ward lobbygog (Chicagoese for ward heeler) explained: "He was retired too long. If you don't go to other people's funerals they won't go to yours...