Word: jackpot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close behind urbane Olvany marches genial George E. Brennan of Chicago. His cohorts (O'Briens, Mclnerneys, Sullivans, McDonoughs, Quinlans, Whealans) are a legacy from Boss Roger Sullivan. Says Brennan: "The job of boss was a big jackpot. I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." Once, also, he was the only man present in an emergency when two cars of a moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma...
...guidance of "Boss" Roger Sullivan, became the heir apparent. "I can't say I deserved Roger Sullivan's mantle," said Brennan, "It just fell to me. . . . The job of boss was a big jackpot and I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." "Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party...