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Word: jackpots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senatorial Campaigns | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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