Word: vare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since Glenna Collett Vare took it 14 years...
Albert M. Greenfield, onetime Republican and heavy contributor to the Vare machine, who switched allegiance in 1932. Born in the Ukraine in 1887, Greenfield is one of the biggest real-estate operators in the country, controls banks, department stores, a candy store chain (Loft), theaters and several of Philadelphia's big hotels. He is active in both Christian and Jewish charities, a prime promoter of National Brotherhood Week. He was vice chairman of Johnson's fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes...
...sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year-old from Long Beach, Calif...
...Eighth Warders this parsimony verged on blasphemy. What would the Eighth's old saloon-frequenting boss, Good Time Buck Devlin, have said of this stinginess? Or Mr. Devlin's peers-Senator Boies Penrose, Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, "Iz" Durham, or the three Vare brothers from the Neck (South Philadelphia...
...Ulysses S. Grant. A onetime brickmaker's apprentice, genial "Judge" Israel W. Durham, took over, carried on the pattern until 1905, finally died of what was termed "paralysis of the heart"-which was no surprise to some cynical Philadelphia taxpayers. After him came "The Dukes," the three Vare brothers, sons of a South Philadelphia hog-breeder: 1) George, one of the "King's" lieutenants, a contractor; 2) Edwin H., an ashman who extended his control of the neck to most of Philadelphia, died in 1922 controlling most of Pennsylvania's politicos and courts; 3) William, the youngest...