Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anonymous Chicago Democratic precinct captain: "It was them bastards that shouldn't oughta vote which voted and beat...
...cops drove up, observed the proceedings and went into the caretaker's office to keep warm. Since the veterans were deserving 13th Ward boys, no 13th Ward politician was inclined to disturb them. In fact, a few precinct captains hurried around to help. Nobody interfered as the squatters began bringing furniture and clothes and getting their wives and children settled...
Beer & Jokes. Next day, 11,000 Republican ward heelers, precinct captains and office seekers roared into the fairgrounds, leaving a wake of blended whiskey, cold beer and old Roosevelt jokes. They came by special train, bus, airplane, automobile caravan. They were cocky, noisy, full of fire. As farmers on the midway gaped, they clamored into the race-track grandstand for their own fun & fireworks...
That was about all; the ward bosses and precinct captains beat their hands numb, and the band blared Lucky...
Will Harry Truman be a hard man to beat for President in 1948? This week the Republican, G.O.P. magazine, gave its own answer to this question, supplied by 3,408 Republican wheelhorses (county chairmen, district committeemen, precinct workers). Ten months ago 77% of the GOPsters had thought that the President would be hard to beat. Now 68% thought it would be easy as apple...