Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illinois politics, intraparty and interparty, divide between industrial wet Chicago and agricultural dry Down-State, win Down-State votes, to defeat Senator Charles Samuel Deneen for the Republican senatorial nomination in next April's primary election, Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick, Mark Hanna's daughter, widow of Senator Medill...
Mrs. McCormick, it was conceded, had a less than even chance to defeat Senator Deneen. Chicago, with its machine, probably would go Deneen. Down-State might go McCormick unless Newton Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col...
"There is an impression in America that Europe is decadent, on the down grade, because of the War. Let me assure you that Europe was never younger than today! It is almost as if the forces of youth had been released anew in the Old World.
Clearly the lawyers' rather neat discovery had made it necessary for the Iron Man to haul down his nailed-up flag and he, astute, knew how to perform this second "impossible" feat.
Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to...