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Wilson, who was gifted with all the stumpster's arts which Mr. Hadley lacked, inserted himself in City Hall as controller. This summer both of these old friends reached simultaneously for the Republican nomination for mayor. Davis Wilson beat Hadley in the primaries, but split the local G. 0. P. so badly that Democrats from Postmaster General Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only...
...Chairman Sykes chose to side with his later rather than his earlier benefactor. He made trips from Washington to Mississippi to take part in the campaign, arranged for anti-Bilbo broadcasts, did all in his power "to prevent Theodore G. Bilbo from crossing the Potomac in 1935." In return, Stumpster Bilbo vowed eternal vengeance upon Stumpster Sykes when he did cross the Potomac to the Senate...
...week's second happy legitimate debut (see below), oldtime Song-&-Dance Man Fred Stone turns in a vivid characterization as hot-blooded "Ace." A great parodist in his time, Actor Stone shines best when, as the persuasive stumpster, he drops into Western, Southern or Irish dialect at will, depending on whom he is trying to persuade. Unconsciously, he confuses the part a bit by also imitating Will Rogers, Eddie Foy and Glenn Anders from time to time...
...Stumpster Bilbo, who stops at no forensic device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just...
Next day she went back to her summer home to spend three weeks with her daughters. When she went into the June primary campaign as her husband's stumpster she weighed 120 lb. and when she came out, she weighed 100 lb. After a rest-up during which she hopes to regain some flesh, Nominee Lydia Langer will start campaigning in her own behalf...