Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quickly and together they fashioned one, Al and George. A fortnight ago George lay dying. Al got daily bulletins. When George died, Al was almost the first to telephone the relict and her daughter. Busy, he bustled through the most pressing business, put aside his speech, got his friend, Contractor Kenny, to come up with the "St. Nicholas" for quick passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train to converse with a strangely unenthusiastic Al. At the La Salle Street Station, massed battalions of Democracy...
Saying goodbye to Mrs. Smith was momentous. She went from Manhattan on the private car of Contractor William Kenny, their old friend. Wife and friend expected him to be his party's settled choice for President of the U. S. before they saw him again. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner, who was to have been an alternate delegate at Houston, stayed at home with her father. Illness was the immediate cause but doubtless he was glad in a way. The youngest Smith son, Walter, also stayed in Albany...
...side by side in the front row. They chatted together, sometimes laughed together. Perhaps they were patching things up. Perhaps they really like one another. Perhaps the Vare-Mellon rivalry is a fiction. Perhaps there are simple explanations of what happened in Kansas City: that Boss Vare, a contractor, heartily admired Candidate Hoover, an engineer; that Secretary Mellon, a cautious financier, wanted to explore every contingency before shifting from the Coolidge investment to the Hoover; that Vare, a blunt creature, saw no sense in waiting longer; that Mellon, alive to subtleties, dreaded taking the final step before...
...Vare boosting the Beaver Man up a tree to get the Presidential apple. On the seat of the Beaver Man's white trousers appeared the dirty print of a smudgy, pudgy hand. In any campaign of Hoover v. Smith, if Republicans point to Smith's rich backer, Contractor William Kenny, Democrats will point back at Hoover's friend, Contractor Vare. If Tammany Hall is viewed with alarm, so will be the notorious voting of tombstones, alley cats, children and dead men in the Vare wards of Philadelphia...
...hustled in the '60s to bring the railroad bridge across the Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built and a commodious Convention Hall. An eccentric old Kentucky colonel, Thomas H. Swope, grew so enthusiastic that he donated 1,354 acres to give Kansas City...