Because of all these things--his ability, such as it was, his pliability, and his thoroughly respectable savor--he had been slated as candidate for mayor on the Republican ticket, which had subsequently been elected.
Cowperwood was well aware, from remarks made in the previous campaign, of the derogatory attitude of Mayor Sluss.

Already he had discussed it in a conversation with the Hon.

Joel Avery (ex-state senator), who was in his employ at the time.

Avery had recently been in all sorts of corporation work, and knew the ins and outs of the courts--lawyers, judges, politicians--as he knew his revised statutes.

He was a very little man--not more than five feet one inch tall--with a wide forehead, saffron hair and brows, brown, cat-like eyes and a mushy underlip that occasionally covered the upper one as he thought.