Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What did unfold as Stassen headed back to Pennsylvania was fury among the Administration's Nixon loyalists. Actually, said a presidential aide, the long Ike-Harold talk had been about such political generalities as how to develop youthful new candidates. Snapped Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell, New Jersey liberal and possible Nixon 1960 running mate: "It is my conviction that Richard M. Nixon ought to be and will be the next President of the U.S." Said Attorney General Bill Rogers: "Did Stassen ask for time to second the Vice President's nomination?"-which was the way Harold scrambled...
...twelve Senators with a "perfect" voting record; yet. as the onetime board chairman of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., Symington is viewed benignly by businessmen. His close personal and political friends range from Convair Vice President Tom Lanphier to the Electrical Workers' President Jim Carey. He has stood consistently with the Senate's liberal civil rights bloc; yet he has somehow managed to keep in the good graces of the South...
...boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered to cough up $85,000 owed the city of Boston after his third term as mayor...
Like his political history, Jim Curley's Harvard History begins before the turn of the century in the day when a few of the boys at Pete Whalen's cigar store talked him into running for Boston's Common Council. Old Ward 17, an immigrant district which included City Hospital and the Mud Flats, had been devotedly tended by tight-fisted Pea-Jacket Maguire who had only recently been hoodwinked into giving up his patronage for the honorific and powerless post of Democratic City Commission Chairmen by John F. Dever, the Uncle of the late Governor. Dever's position...
...Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From one swindler to another. Jim Curley...