Word: chaunceys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago's hostesses were nominated, and even Mammy Yokum, of Dogpatch, received six votes. The old Chicago wheat-pit spirit raised its head. Laughed International Harvester Director Chauncey McCormick: "I've been offering a dollar apiece for votes for my wife, but I heard Ed Cudahy is offering $1.25, so I'm upping my offer...
This week Athlyn Deshais announced the name of the winner and new queen: Mrs. Chauncey McCormick. Sighed Mrs. McCormick: "I'm completely overcome." Certainly the new queen was eminently qualified for her job. Marion McCormick, a grandmother in her 60s, is a third-generation Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal...
...Administration bill, submitted by Illinois Representative Chauncey Reed, would make admissible in federal courts wiretap evidence "heretofore or hereafter" obtained by the FBI "upon the express approval of the Attorney General" in national-security cases. That is all. The sole object of the bill is to make past and future wiretap evidence admissible...
...Democrat Elmer A. Carter, 63, for eight years a member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, for the borough presidency of Manhattan, the city's most important county. Quickly, Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri's faction of New York's badly split Democrats selected Colonel Chauncey Hooper, 59, an assistant deputy comptroller of the city and a staff officer in the New York National Guard, for the same office. In a supporting speech, the mayor told Harlem voters that he hoped they would vote for their "own stock," i.e., Candidate Hooper, and deplored the fact that...
...Yale victory by the margin of two field goals ended the varsity football season, though a Chauncey to Saltonstall pass gave hope for the future. Despite the CRIMSON's editorial about "exotic-idiotic" productions, the Dramatic Club proceeded to stage "The Orange Comedy," with Barry Bingham in the lead part and L. H. Ennis, K. A. Perry4During '28's sophomore year, KIRTLEY F. MATHER, professor of Geology, argued that evolutionary theory should be taught in schools...