Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brennan on Woollen. Commenting on the Woollen candidacy last week, George E. Brennan, Illinois Democratic boss, supporter of Governor Smith, said: "Tom Taggart always has his water buckets out in case it should rain...
...Mayor Dever and his backer George Brennan he howled: "Dever and Brennan are a disgrace to the Irish blood. They are the worst two-faced hypocrites who ever came to my attention. They circulated a cartoon called 'Thompson Kissing a Negro.' Is that what Dever and decency means...
...politics have often observed that the question of pardon is one of a governor's most serious problems, as one pardon inevitably leads to a host of applications for others. Last week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan's shield, Brennan fired a revolver at Krainen, killing...
...Illinois, in spite of slush, in spite of the hostility of the potent Chicago Tribune and Daily News, Frank L. Smith was elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
Arthur Sears Henning, Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, whose despatches are often more fantastic than factual, made the following report: "When an Illinois man discussing the matter [Senatorial candidacy of slush-tainted Frank L. Smith, Rep.] with the President remarked that 'Brennan is tarred with the same stick,' referring to the fact that the Democratic candidate for Senator accepted $15,000 from Insull, Mr. Coolidge turned upon him with that cold blue eye of his and snapped: 'But Brennan wasn't regulating Insull's properties...