Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since his "quarantine the aggressor nations" speech at Chicago in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt has openly led the party which believes not only that the totalitarian dictators deny the democratic U. S. way of life but that they threaten it, that something must be done to curb them. Doing something about things that look wrong to him is a prime characteristic of Franklin Roosevelt and, fortified by the Warm Springs spirit, the tougher the going gets the better he likes...
...rostrum for three days of earnest punning at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a national Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers. At the Council's instance, seven Governors and the representatives of 37 States dabbled in Constitutional history, gazed gravely at charts depicting some of the most astonishing phenomena of current life in the U. S. Among facts related, deplored...
...intelligent schoolboy knows that all this kind of thing makes all the people poorer than they need be and is sheer economic nonsense. One thing to do is to view with alarm, and this was ably done in Chicago last week by two potent Governors-Cochran of Nebraska and Stark of Missouri (see p. 21)-who discerned and decried a menace to "free America...
...Chicago edition of Thomas Edmund Dewey is Dwight Green, 42, stocky, grey, energetic. He helped jail Al Capone and tried Old Sam Insull. Last week, Dwight Green got more votes for Mayor (638,068) than any Republican candidate in history...
Headlining the festivities will be Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Rita Rio, and Albert Ammons, who have been engaged to supply the musical part of the program. Eldridge, colored orchestra leader form Chicago's "three Deuces" will play his famous swing trumpet to the accompaniment of a local orchestra...