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Decatur, machinists in Rockford, farm machinery workers in Rock Island, railroaders in Moline, miners in West Frankfort, Caterpillar workers in Peoria, tank builders in Alton, the farmers in the drought area, auto dealers, grocers and other merchants across the state . . . The figures of these men and women of Illinois whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom...
Nelson, mindful of the Administration's policy of partnership between public and private utilities, suggested that the two sides get together. They reluctantly consented, met in Washington and in Frankfort, Ky., spent most of their time scowling at each other across the table. Finally, they agreed to let power experts see if a solution could be worked out from an engineering standpoint. The engineers, unconcerned with the high-level wrangling, drew up a plan to integrate the public and private power systems...
After two years in Frankfort, he went back to Pulaski County and tried for the local political plum: county judge. In the election of 1929 he won handily, and moved into the office his father and grandfather had occupied before...
...Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army...
After Harvard, the Tribune sent Glasgow to Chicago as its Midwest correspondent. He came to TIME in 1950, assigned to the Chicago bureau. Some of the TIME stories he covered include the Cicero race riots of 1951, the tragic West Frankfort, Ill coal mine disaster, the rise of Adlai Stevenson and his political campaign, some notably quotable reporting on the home life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey for the TIME cover story...