Word: vare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when the Republican machine of the late William S. Vare plotted the path which Philadelphia should tread, the Boss simply pointed his finger and the man at whom he pointed was overwhelmingly elected. Whom the Democrats might nominate made little difference. This year it does...
...highly successful boss of Philadelphia's Democratic machine. He was picked by J. David Stern, publisher of the Philadelphia Record, and other ardent New Dealers for the job of putting Democrats on the Philadelphia map. Athlete Kelly promptly kicked out the machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5¢ fare (in place of 7½¢ tokens), WPA money...
...political Twins Hadley and Wilson hoped to force Boss Vare to nominate them in 1933, respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...
Partner Wilson might have tried to seize the Democratic nomination except that Democratic Boss Kelly got there ahead of him. So while Partner Hadley rounded up support of the Penrose faction, Partner Wilson rounded up support of the Vare faction and began to make things...
There were only two moments at Interlachen when it looked as if Mrs. Vare might lose. One was in her semi-final match with 18-year-old Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis whom she defeated 2 & 1. The other came the next day when she was playing a 17-year-old, freckled-faced tomboy named Patty Berg, whose father persuaded her to take up golf three years ago, hoping it would make her lose interest in playing football on a neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes...