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...plane from the cutter with the news that his father was playing politics with his naval aide, Captain Wilson Brown, his military aide, Colonel Edwin M. Watson. The Press now wanted to know who had won. Franklin Roosevelt looked blank until someone explained they meant the dice-and-pin game called "Politics" (TIME...
Illinois politics is a cat's cradle of cross-purposes and cross-alliances hanging between metropolitan Chicago and rural downstate. The four chief candidates for Governor-two in each party-are only four of the numerous pins from which the cradle hangs. On the Democratic side Pin No. 1 is Governor Henry Homer, a lawyer whose enterprise and honesty landed him on the Cook County Probate bench in 1914. There his work put him in touch with many of Chicago's most influential families, who came to esteem him as highly as he was held among his fellow...
...Pin No. 2 is Herman Niels Bundesen. Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during...
...Republican side Pin No. 1 is Lawyer C. Wayland Brooks, who as an assistant State's Attorney helped secure the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Pin No. 2 is onetime (1921-29) Governor Len Small, who ruled Illinois as head of a malodorous Republican machine, but to whom the farmers of Illinois are still grateful for the concrete roads he built...
...believe that anyone who is acquainted with the fact of the case can honestly say that Germany has ever asked to be "king-pin on the European alley", or can conceive of her in the future as planning to "leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog". Edward T. Ladd...