Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influential Tammany district leader, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, demanded the resignation of Tammany Boss Christopher D. Sullivan, also advised scrapping the name Tammany. Reason: "It has become a load that no one can carry...
Sweet-faced, velvet-voiced Singer Maxine Sullivan, the darling of nightclubs, schoolboys and college youths, last week found a new, choicer audience. Sweet-swinging such ballads as Barbara Allen and Who Is Sylvia?, café-au-lait-colored Miss Sullivan was the cream of a "Coffee Concert" in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...program, called "Salon Swing." included subdued riffs by Benny Carter's Septet, tap dancing by an extraordinary young Negro named Baby Lawrence, songs by Maxine Sullivan, three of them to harpsichord accompaniment. The recital got chastely in the groove when the harpsichord, precisely pecked by willowy, red-haired Sylvia Marlowe, gave forth Pine-top's Boogie, rolling bass...
...outcome of the election explained Landis last night. The votes will not be all counted up for another ten days at least. But one voter, outside of the Cambridge Fire Station poll yesterday, shouted. "Tell Jim Landis he can shove Plan E . . . I'm voting or Mickey Sullivan...
Members of the Harvard Liberal Union, and students from Radcliffe, and Wellesley spent all day at the polls handing out pamphlets, checking off voters to see that didn't vote twice, and generally plugging for the eleven candidates favored by Landis. Sullivan's drawing power is strongest in Ward Six, the area right around the University, and this was where the students concentrated their efforts...