Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions had captured Czestochowa, the Black Madonna's hometown...
Thomas Edmund Dewey, leading candidate for the G. O. Presidential nomination next year, last week canceled plans to visit his mother in their hometown of Owosso, Mich, and to attend the Shiawassee County Fair. "Certain matters" postponed this trip, which was to have begun his attempted march to the White House. As District Attorney of New York County, young Mr. Dewey was hot on the trail of quarry which, if he caught it, would plaster the newspapers once more with heroic Dewey headlines. Last week Mr. Dewey found the trail uncomfortably crowded. Trotting along at his side were...
...guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television, 5) look at a March oj Time cinema, 6) sit, relax...
...first Taft-for-President Club was started at Marion, hometown of Ohio's late lamented Warren Gamaliel Harding...