Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul, which gave Tru man a majority of 40,000 in 1948. Even Adlai Stevenson's Illinois had fallen. Ike jumped into a narrow lead, cutting sharp ly into Stevenson's expected majority in Chicago and rolling up so decisive a ma jority downstate that Democratic Boss Jake Arvey conceded before midnight...
...Jake Arvey, Stevenson's faithful servant and boss of Cook County, had a more practical rationalization than Steve Mitchell. Said Arvey: "It seems like reactionary Democrats combined with Republicans to beat us." Overlooked fact staring Arvey in the face: all of Stevenson's electoral vote was coming from the Fair-Deal-hating South (plus West Virginia...
...somewhat ironic that the list of onetime Democrat "I Like Ike" for president men includes Harry Truman, Jake Arvey, James Roosevelt, and John S. Sparksman. If these men had ever prevailed upon Eisenhower to run as a Democrat, there would be no question about the outcome of this election. However, Eisenhower preferred not to be the political handmaid of a president who could call the Fullbright Report on RFC corruption "asinine" or who has still refused to fire Harry "Deep Freeze" Vaughan, Wallace "Grain Speculation" Graham, or Donald Dawson who, as presidential patronage boss with power to hire and fire...
Broke every single rib of Jake Kilrain...
...Chicagoans call Jacob M. Arvey both Jake and Jack. Arvey likes Jack...