Word: deneen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 8?Illinois primaries tor U. Senate. Republican antagonists: Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick...
Illinois politics, intraparty and interparty, divide between industrial wet Chicago and agricultural dry Down-State, win Down-State votes, to defeat Senator Charles Samuel Deneen for the Republican senatorial nomination in next April's primary election, Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick, Mark Hanna's daughter, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, set out last week none too confident of success...
...McCormick, it was conceded, had a less than even chance to defeat Senator Deneen. Chicago, with its machine, probably would go Deneen. Down-State might go McCormick unless Newton Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother-in-law of the candidate, had not committed itself beyond regretting the lack of a wet candidate. Should a wet Democrat arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed...
...handle committee vacancies the Sen ate majority maintains an unofficial group known as the Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...