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McClure was president of McClure & Co., Pennsylvania Paving Co. and
Chester Construction and Contracting Company and Chester Beverage Company. He was vice president and director of the Consumers Ice and Coal Company; treasurer and director of Allison Steel Products Co.; director of the Cambridge
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that would be permitted to operate and those that did not pay up and were to be closed. The prosecution contended that in 11 years of operation, the rum ring was able to charge between $ 25 and $ 200 a week for every illegal speakeasy in
Delaware County to operate and raised $ 2,748,900 in
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was campaigning in
Chester, Pennsylvania. McClure was in poor health but due to his prominence in Delaware County Republican politics, Nixon stopped his motorcade as it moved down Providence Avenue in front of McClure's house and went up to the porch to shake McClure's hand.
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In 1941, McClure was indicted for conspiracy to gain a $ 250,000 profit from the sale of the
Chester Water Works to a private buyer. McClure and four Chester City Council members were acquitted but ordered by the court to return the money to the city of Chester.
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Ships were allowed to bring liquor shipments into
Chester at a rate of $ 1.50 per sack. An ex-constable testified at trial that he personally handed McClure $ 30,000 from one shipment. Between the summer in 1929 and January 1931, one Philadelphia
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The base of power for McClure and the
Chester and Delaware County Republican political machine was liquor. McClure controlled local and county level officials dependent on Chester's liquor licensing and saloon trade.
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Chester, and accept the position as Delaware County's Republican Party leader. They offered McClure funding for future elections and control over hiring decisions for all positions at the Sun shipyard and
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in U.S. history. McClure led the
Delaware County Republican Board of Supervisors, also known as the War Board, which controlled county politics for decades. McClure hand picked candidates for county,
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due to public outcry over his protected status and ability to avoid imprisonment. Following the loss, McClure retired to
Florida but was persuaded to move back to Pennsylvania by
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Pennsylvania Senate but it failed. McClure lost his reelection bid for Pennsylvania Senate in 1936 to
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