Word: cramers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to a Hungarian D.P. who had stopped by for a few games at the Bauern-Lola before he made his way to the U.S. Kronach found its new opponents in Peoria. Ill. There, Distillery Foreman Henry Cramer listened to Kronach's ambassador and wrote to Bavaria suggesting an international match to be carried on by mail. Each town fielded a 21-man team, with each member carrying on two games at the same time...
That was in the spring of 1951. Foreman Cramer, as Peoria's playing secretary, kept up a monumental correspondence with Alfred Joanni manager of a Kronach porcelain factory and the only man in the Kronach club who spoke English. For four years, the international airmail match ground on. Although each letter was vitally concerned with the progress of 42 chess games Joanni and Cramer managed to mix in some gossip, too. "We got to know the families and troubles of partners across the ocean." says Joanni. ''Pictures were exchanged. When one of the Americans died...
...Massachusetts, six alumni were elected to the House, only one of whom, Torbert H. MacDonald '40 (D) is a newcomer. Elsewhere the most surprising victory was that of William C. Cramer, Law '48 (R, Fla.), who won in a close race. He will be the first Republican representative from his state since Reconstruction...
...since Reconstruction days had Florida elected a G.O.P. Representative. William C. Cramer came close in 1952 in the Tampa-St. Petersburg district, lost out only on the count of absentee ballots-and never stopped running. This time he made it. Hillsborough County (Tampa) is normally Democratic and has a population of 249,000-of whom only 33,890 took the trouble to vote. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is Republican. Its population is 158,000-and 61,000 voted. Result: a 1,600-vote edge for Cramer...
...Virginia is normally Democratic. North Carolina's G.O.P. Representative Charles Raper Jonas is in only a slightly better position. In New York's 21st District, Jacob Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop a seat in California's 13th District because of the aroma left behind by G.O.P. Representative Ernest Bramblett, whose salary kickback case is still in the courts.* Pennsylvania's Representative Hugh Scott has won by an eyelash for years, all the time...