Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ward-level thinking came naturally to Bill Boyle. Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine. At 16, he was ringing doorbells in the old Fourth (Silk Stocking) Ward in Kansas City, later became leader there, entered the law. He was a police-department secretary in 1939 when his boss followed old Tom Pendergast to jail. Boyle took over the police department for a few months, won the praise even of the opposition for his administration...
...applause was less than deafening. House Minority Leader Joe Martin pronounced it "a good, fighting, constructive speech." Snorted Michigan's Representative Paul Shafer: "The Republican Party's No. 1 ghost has walked again." Ohio's Senator John Bricker, who was Dewey's running mate in 1944, concluded: "The party's going to be all right. All dinners help...
Membership in the Legal Aid Bureau is an honor at the Law School second only to a post on the Law Review. Paul V. McNutt, ex-governor of Indiana and former High Commissioner of the Philippines and Richird B. Wigglesworth '12, one time Congressional leader, were once members of the Bureau...
...chewed gum, others smoked cigarettes-and no one tried to stop them. It was a great day for the kids on the platform and for the handful down front listening: they were beginning a worldwide children's crusade, and they had nothing to lose but their chains. Their leader: bachelor Headmaster Robert Copping of Britain's ultra-progressive Horsley Hall...
...Roland Berner, Manhattan lawyer and leader of the stockholder group which had tried to break Vaughan's control...