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Plotting Ward Heelers. There is scarcely a patriotic military man to be found in Seven Days in May. They are all engaged in a plot to overthrow the President because he has negotiated a disarmament treaty with Russia. Chief conspirator is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Scott, who combines Eisenhower's charm with MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...
Opening this week at a Michigan summer playhouse is a political satire about a conniving ward heeler, Ballots Up! The playwright: "Larry Sand," who based the work on a 1957 novel. Let George Do It, by "John Foster." As suspicions mounted about the play's authorship, investigation soon proved that Playwright Sand is Novelist Foster; both are, in fact, Massachusetts' two-term Democratic Governor (John) Foster Furcolo, 49. Long since unmasked as the author of the novel, Furcolo was slightly perturbed to stand revealed, even before the first night, as, the playwright. Said he: "I didn...
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...