Word: adlai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springfield, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, 49, inaugurated in his first term last January, agreed to a separation (and an uncontested divorce later) from Socialite Ellen Borden Stevenson, 40, after 20 years of marriage, three children. Deploring "the incompatibility of our lives," the governor declared: "I am deeply distressed . . . We have separated with the highest mutual regard...
Last week Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson signed a bill permitting night thoroughbred races in his state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this...
...Adlai Stevenson...
Still robed in his prestige, little Justice Frankfurter left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...
...Caught between the demands of bird lovers and cat lovers, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson finally vetoed a bill which would have permitted the impounding of cats running around at large. Said he: "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming...