Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in heavily Democratic Jersey City, where Mayor Kenny made no effort at all to produce votes for Boss Hague's candidate, Driscoll managed to pile up a plurality of some 18,000 votes. (The day after the election, Mayor Kenny received a small parcel from Wene's...
On Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the...
Fifty-two-year-old John Hynes is more a career civil servant than a politician, but he grew up in Boston's rough & tumble Irish politics. He quit school at 13, in the days when the help-wanted ads said "No Irish Need Apply," got a high-school education...
¶ Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many...
When Julius Albert Krug was called in to replace terrible-tempered Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior, there seemed no limits to the glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager...