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The Dilemma of Reform: Philadelphia Story
Allen Jr., Charles R. | October 27, 1951 issue

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When a minor office-holder hanged himself in the basement of his Philadelphia, Pennsylvania home on May 22, 1948, the exposes which followed dealt a heavy blow to the Republican machine. Since then the Republicans have failed to win a single election in a city in which their dominance had been proverbial U.S. president Harry S. Truman carried the city in the 1948 Presidential election in 1949 the Democrats, though out-registered nearly three to one, defeated the "City Hall gang," the next year the Democratic candidate for governor won comfortably in Philadelphia, narrowly missing election; and in 1951 the city adopted a new charter over the opposition of the Grand Old Party.

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PRESIDENTIAL candidates; POLITICAL participation; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; ELECTIONS; PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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