Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kelly had won short of half the 1,236,456 votes cast in Chicago that day, but Republicans, who cast 274,317 votes, nonetheless took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
Hailed by the Republican National Committee as "similar in type to ... Thomas E. Dewey" of New York, Republican Green is expected to give Kelly & crew at least a good workout before election day, April 4. Long-shot bettors pointed out that his primary vote (211,965) was almost as large as that polled by the late Democrat Anton J. ("Tony") Cermak when he upset Chicago's Republicans...
...Cabinet of Catholics and Socialists which toppled after exactly one week. King Leopold, who is said to feel that something old and yet new in the world-autocracy-might not be bad for Belgium, this week stepped in with a firm hand. He dissolved Parliament, ordered new elections on April...
...called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank in a series of stockholders' suits (TIME, April 26, 1937), and in handling Mr. Hearst's financial affairs he has worked in close harmony with the Chase, Hearst's largest banking creditor...
...this majority good. A 43-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, Nora Wain married an Englishman in the service of the Chinese government, went with him to Germany when he resigned to study music. They arrived a few days before the Blood Purge of June 1934, returned to England last April...