Word: helena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks in Helena, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake, Boise, 20-odd weeks before the Republican convention would meet in Philadelphia (see p. 17), and a chance to preach the doctrine of future growth in the least stagnant section of the country...
...Candidate Dewey drove through a blizzard from Butte to Helena, where in 70 miles there are abandoned mines, a school for the feeble-minded and one town with 760 souls, one with 250, one with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make...