Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks...
While most of the nation's politicos were still rubbing liniment into their campaign-sore muscles, Chicago's Republicans last week plunged feverishly ahead to the next event. All over the nation's second largest city billboards shouted: "Root for Mayor...
That the name meant nothing at all to most voters was no oddity in long-suffering Chicago. Republican mayoral Candidate Russell William Root had been hand-picked by Governor Dwight Green, who sent him over to the Tribune Tower for approval. Colonel Bertie McCormick, who had long maintained a cynical truce with local Democrats, rumbled his assent. After what had happened to the Democrats in November, he was sure the G.O.P. could now take the mayoralty-with anybody...
...G.O.P. small fry gulped with amazement when the word was passed down. Huge (6 ft. 2½in., 220 Ibs.), bear-like Russell Root's greatest claim to political fame was a vague resemblance to Wendell Willkie. In his 48 years he had never held a political job above ward committeeman until he was lifted into the Cook County G.O.P. chairmanship last spring. Even he admitted that last month's Republican sweep was due more to a vote against the "ins" than to his own ability...
...Along." Trying to figure out what was in the bosses' minds, the precinct captains could think of only two reasons for Root's candidacy. For one, he had smoothed over many an old sore in the Republican camp with his easy back-slapping affability and a judicious use of amiable profanity. More important, he had never questioned orders or policies from above. His stock political pronouncement: "I'll go along...