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Democrats were first; but their show was a sorry one. Only 1,800 party stalwarts were on hand to greet the big men from Chicago: tall, grinning Boss Ed Kelly and his small, bald lieutenant, Jake Arvey (TIME, July 22). Boss Ed dutifully praised Harry Truman as "the Old Hickory type, the shirtsleeves type, who will fight for his friends and his country." Little Jake said nothing, sat making mental note of the empty seats from which delegates from 75 downstate counties were distressingly absent...
Some of George's critics thought this was going a bit too far-and they also thought George might never get the job. In almost the same breath, Harry Truman had nominated three other cronies-Jake Vardaman, Stu Symington and Ed Pauley-for top Government jobs, and the public howled. Ed Pauley subsequently had to withdraw after some dissection by a Senate committee; but George, as usual, was equal to the occasion...
Aging Ed Kelly still clung to Chicago's top political spot. The deal left him the city patronage. But shrewd, suave Jake Arvey will run everything else. A new era had quietly begun in Chicago's tough, corrupt politics. Not necessarily a better...
Growled the Boss: "I put the name of Colonel Arvey in nomination." Grinning from ear to ear, the little owl-eyed man with the sunburned bald spot stood up. Nominations were quickly closed. Jake ("Call me Jack") Arvey was the new chairman of Cook County. The meeting adjourned in time for the first race...
...Brain. Jake Arvey was born 50 years ago near the Loop. He worked his way through school into law and Chicago politics. He became Pat Nash's golden-haired boy when, at Nash's bidding, he led Jewish voters to the polls to vote against Jewish Governor Horner. In the Kelly-Nash machine, where Nash was the muscle and Ed Kelly the front, Jake Arvey became the brain ("the only man in the organization who ever read a book"). As a National Guard officer in the Judge Advocate General's office, he went to the Philippines with...