Ruling Suburbia: John J. McClure and the Republican Machine in Delaware County, PennsylvaniaRuling Suburbia chronicles the history of the Republican machine that has dominated the political life of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, since 1875, and of the career of John J. McClure, who controlled the machine from 1907 until 1965. |
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Contents
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The Progressive Era | 42 |
From Spoilsman to Statesman | 72 |
The RumRing | 101 |
What Chester Makes | 132 |
The Master Sorcerer | 178 |
Black Republicans | 210 |
Epilogue | 238 |
Defendants and Unindicted Coconspirators | 251 |
Population Tables | 255 |
Notes | 261 |
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Page 16 - ... the cards. If anybody wanted anything— jobs, favors, cash— he could only go to the boss, the local leader. What Roosevelt did was to take the handouts out of the local hands. A few little things like Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the like— that's what shifted the gears, sport. No need now to depend on the boss for everything; the Federal Government was getting into the act. Otherwise known as a social revolution.
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Page 20 - ... eliminated many of the rough-and-ready welfare functions of the precinct captain, though the more imaginative recouped part of their loss by helping to steer constituents through the bureaucratic maze, claiming credit for the benefits thus obtained. Granting the importance of all of these developments, in the long run, the decline of immigration doubtless proved the most important blow to the traditional machine operation. New arrivals had been entering the country at a rate in excess of four...
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| Title | Ruling Suburbia: John J. McClure and the Republican Machine in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore |
| Author | John Morrison McLarnon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Delaware Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0874138140, 9780874138146 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / American Government / State Political Science / Political Process / General Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties |
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