Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln was able to jest at his own failures is indicated in a humorous business card he had printed up following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense...
...family affair." Simultaneously this week a new rash of sit-downs erupted throughout the land, victims including Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies), Santa Monica, Calif.'s Douglas Aircraft Co., Groton, Conn.'s Electric Boat Co. and Crowell Publishing Co.'s printing plant at Springfield, Ohio...
...officers are, as follows: President, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. 2L of Oakland, California; Note Editor, Sidney H. Willner 2L of Wachawken, New Jersey; Legislation Editor, James E. Day 2L of Springfield, Illinois; Case Editor, Theodore R. Colborn 2L of Rochester, New York; Book Review Editor, Robert Kramer 2L of Davenport, Iowa; and Treasurer, Robert Amory. Jr. 2L of Milton...
Hurley has not forgotten the state electing machines, but his memory augurs them no good. Citing the impossibility of a candidate to break through the powerful machine which held Springfield in its grip during the last election, he attacked the pre-primary elections as an evil to be removed. All candidates should be allowed to be on the ballot election day. Among the other reforms which he has advocated is the bi-annual session of the legislature...
...unequal meet with Springfield yesterday afternoon at Cambridge, the Varsity fencers white-washed their opponents 27 to 0. The Crimson sword-men had previously won from Brown and lost to the Hartford Fencing Club...