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WillB Hadley of Philadelphia was a shy master of municipal finance when he picked up a flamboyant jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson to dramatize him for political purposes. After Philadelphia's late Republican Boss Vare refused them nominations for City Treasurer and Controller respectively in 1933, Political Partners Hadley and Wilson helped junk the Republican machine by winning their jobs on the Democratic-Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket. This year their friendship turned to bitter rivalry when each one decided to go after the Republican nomination for Mayor (TIME, Sept. 16). Philadelphians, curious to know which member...
...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...
...attorney general in a crime crusade, was set upon and stabbed by thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate. In 1905 he turned up in Philadelphia to fight the Vare machine, became Secretary of an independent Republican group backed by Owen Wister, Owen J. Roberts, and William C. Bullitt, father of the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia. In 1912 with Princeton's late Bill Roper he organized the Woodrow Wilson Independent League. After the War, during which he investigated munition...