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Last year, the Cook County Democratic machine decided to drop Morris' patron and chief protector, Reform Mayor Martin Kennelly, in favor of County Clerk Richard J. Daley (a key Illinois tactician for Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson). During the campaign, Morris was tripped up as he tried to bug the hotel room of a suspect who had powerful connections with the county committee. Word got to Candidate Daley that Scotland Yard was working against him. Observed the Daily News: "Predictions were made . . . that the election of Mayor Daley would mean the disbanding of Scotland Yard...
...motion to cut off Dixon-Yates would probably have failed even as an isolated issue. But Cannon, who has a massive reputation as an astute parliamentary tactician, stupidly built in certain defeat when he diverted money to the Fulton public power plant. Many Northern Democrats were willing enough to knife Dixon-Yates, but few would vote for more Government-subsidized power for the South-power that would inevitably attract more migratory industry from the North...
...littered office at Republican national headquarters one day last week, a worn G.O.P. tactician looked up from his master list of congressional districts, nervously reshuffled the foot-high pile of reports on his desk and breathed: "Thank God it isn't next week." Only a few blocks away at Democratic national headquarters, a party tactician jauntily swung his feet up on his desk, carefully straightened his tie (miniature dogs-in honor of Charlie Wilson-on a black back ground) and sighed: "Oh, if it were only next week...
...rest are as bad if not worse than the above, (f) the British are brave super and noble cheers cheers cheers. The only way for Peace is for all of them to dive into the sea and end it all." But he is at his best as a tactician in his own local revolution against the masters. Molesworth is succinct in a guide to "Kanes I Have Known" (e.g., "The 'Nonpliant...
...shrewd tactician, Young opened his campaign by trying to win White over to his side. He invited him to lunch in the lofty Cloud Club dining room atop Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There he painted a glowing picture of the Central's future, with business booming enough so that the price of Central stock would quadruple to 100. Young's plans for the Central call for borrowing $250 million and replacing all passenger cars with his "Train X" (a low, two-wheeled car that "flows around curves...