Word: deneen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCormick had a good personal reason for wanting to beat Senator Deneen. In the April 1924 primary he had defeated her husband for his renomination...
...women throughout the land were watching with greatest interest last week a political campaign in Illinois which might well result in the election of the first woman to the U. S. Senate. On April 8, Illinois Republicans will vote for a Senatorial nominee. The two major candidates: Charles Samuel Deneen, the present Senator; and Ruth Hanna McCormick, relict of Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, daughter of the late great Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio...
...most contests between professionals, the formal issue of the Deneen-Mc-Cormick contest was one remote from the man-in-the-street, in this case U. S. entry into the World Court. Mrs. McCormick, like her isolationist husband before her, is against it. Senator Deneen is for it. As in most Illinois campaigns, there was mudslinging. Mrs. McCormick found her mud in Senator Deneen's friendship for Joseph ("Diamond") Esposito, Chicago underworldling...
White-haired, conventional Senator Deneen, ardent Y. M. C. A. worker that he is, was appealing to the ''better element" of the state, making "law-and-order"' his prime slogan. Esposito, his friend, once ran the Bella Napoli, was reputed in his day to be as monstrous a gangster as Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. Senator Deneen stood as godfather for an Esposito child, partook of the Esposito baptismal feast, had himself photographed with the family. In March 1928, Esposito was shot down with 58 lead slugs in his head, according to Senator Deneen's count...
Taunted by Mrs. McCormick to explain his friendship with such a character, Senator Deneen lately made a speech in a remote corner of the state in which he almost wept over Esposito's slaying, eulogized him as a fine and valiant citizen who had died in the "cause." To help prove what a splendid character he was, Senator Deneen cited the fact that 19,000 roses, costing $10,000, had been strewn along the ten-mile funeral route. Mrs. McCormick's secret stenographer took down that speech. Few are the Illinois voters who do not now know about...