Word: deneen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard dash--Won by Cahners (A); second, Deneen (A); third, R. S. Brookings (H). Time...
Married. Bina Day Deneen, 24, daughter of U. S. Senator and Illinois Boss Charles Samuel Deneen; and Thomas House IV, 27, nephew of Wilsonian Adviser Col. Edward Mandell House; last month; in Covington...
...Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle had been rough and raucous, bombastic and brutal. Yet in the election itself there were no shootings, no sluggings, no kidnappings, no ballot-stealing, only a few bloody noses. Against the Mayor had been arrayed the Tribune, the News, the Snow-Harding organization, the Deneen forces. That he had won the nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle to give...
Fast women and slow ponies are known to have wrought ruin on many a man. In Illinois last week, nimble-fingered men and a deck of cards brought disgrace to a woman. The woman is Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, longtime supporter of Senator Deneen, who got her the job of collector of Internal Revenue for the district of northern Illinois. The story of how she happened to lose $207,000 in paper profits at a Springfield faro game, plus $50,000 in cash loaned her by Edward R. Litsinger, also a Deneenman and member of the Cook County Board...
Mayor Thompson has long nursed a great hatred for the Chicago Tribune and its publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother of Medill. In last April's Republican senatorial primary the Mayor supported Widow McCormick for the expedient purpose of eliminating Senator Charles Samuel Deneen's political grip on Chicago. But the Mayor was no man to support a McCormick for actual election. Therefore last week he prepared a leaflet designed to turn Negroes from Nominee McCormick to Nominee Lewis. Unwilling to sign his own name to the broadside, he first attempted to induce Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest...