Although usually associated with the machine , Crowe occasionally deflected from the administration . In two meetings of the Council in 1939 he consistently voted against the machine , bringing his nominal voting percentage of agreeing with it down to 17 percent . ( Excluding those meetings , he voted for the machine 50 percent of the time in 1939 . ) In addition to his work as alderman , Crowe was an Illinois delegate to the 1936 Democratic National Convention , as well as an alternate delegate to the 1944 and 1952 conventions
1936 Democratic National Convention
1936 Democratic National Convention
Dorsey Crowe