Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overseer Taggart returned home with his sheen but little dimmed by a Roosevelt victory. Curiously, inexplicably he has retained his power-one of the oldtime "Bosses" who figure in a national way. With Charles F. Murphy (Tammany), and Roger Sullivan (Illinois), Tom Taggart in 1912 manoeuvred so as to control apparently the balance of power in the famed Baltimore Convention, to the academic Mr. Wilson's distaste. Indicted in 1915 for election frauds, he nevertheless was appointed Senator by Governor Ralston the next year to fill the unexpired term of Senator Shively. Again in 1924 politicians journeyed to French...
...there died Senator Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, able blatherskite, onetime running mate of Presidential runner-up William Jennings Bryan. Georgia Democrats elected as his successor one Walter Franklin George. Soon thereafter Washington correspondents, led by Clinton W. ("Mirror") Gilbert and Mark Sullivan, cheered loudly for Senator George. At 44, he was a distinguished lawyer, brilliant orator, a rather impressive figure on the Senate floor. He was no bombaster of the Tom Heflin school, no ranting humorist of the Pat Harrison species. His popularity grew; people began to say that the South was having a political renaissance, that soon...
...guidance of "Boss" Roger Sullivan, became the heir apparent. "I can't say I deserved Roger Sullivan's mantle," said Brennan, "It just fell to me. . . . The job of boss was a big jackpot and I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." "Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party...
Local circulation of names varies. In New York Cohen is second to Smith, Schwartz fifth. In Chicago Johnson is ahead of Smith and Anderson third. Boston's first five are Smith, Sullivan, Brown, Johnson, Murphy. Meyer is third in Cincinnati...
...Cravath has taken an apartment at No. 910 Fifth Avenue, where she will reside. Mr. Cravath will continue to live at his present residence in New York and at his country place at Locust Valley, L. I. "In answer to a further inquiry, Mr. de Gersdorff and Mr. Sullivan said that a divorce was not contemplated or desired by either party...