Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springfield, Mass...
...Says Branch Rickey: "Leo can't be found mollycoddling a situation. He has marvelous aptitude-whether shooting pool, playing golf or squash or gin rummy-but no classical education. His marks in deportment may not have been too good. He came out of a pretty tough neighborhood in Springfield, Mass. with great energy which boiled down to three words: 'I'll beat you, I'll beat...
...Springfield...
Awakening. Last fall Publisher Bowles, still mad at the printers, suddenly shut up shop rather than sign a contract with them. Deprived of news, Springfield was jolted into realizing what it can mean to be a monopoly town...
Small merchants lost trade; florists found that people who could not read about deaths or weddings did not send flowers. A cinema hired a sound-truck to hawk its shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...