Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James A. Duff, 73, light opera impresario; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. In the '70s Mr. Duff brought to the U. S. a score of H. M. S. Pinafore for which he paid a few shillings in England, overcame reluctant managers, instigated the Gilbert & Sullivan racket...
...sloganeers eyed with interest the following quotation, reported or invented by Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune to describe the relation between Prosperity and Prohibition in the feelings of the midwest: " 'I don't like Prohibition, but I'm going to vote for Hoover because I'd rather eat than drink...
Most political pundits write books from time to time. For example, Mark Sullivan, the Great Predicter of the Herald Tribune, has branched out from politics to folklore with a history of the U. S. called Our Times, of which two volumes are published and more being written. His political observations this year have not seemed inspired...
George E. Brennan, boss of Illinois (succeeding Sullivan), died...
...lone survivor of the advance guard is Thomas Taggart, 71, of Indiana. It was Taggart, Murphy and Brennan (acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...