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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party. In the end Mr. Simpson had overcome these objections. He now wanted to be certified by the National Committee. More, he wanted to be put on that body's Executive Committee, where New York's Hilles had sat, though his committee back home had not voted...
...just happily remarried. Being a reform mayor in a place like Chicago is grueling work, and the stage, even in vasty, gusty Chicago, would be small and local compared to the Interior and PWA. Getting the nomination in February's primary might not be easy, either. State's Attorney Tom Courtney, able and fearless, is burning to be the Nash-Kelly smasher...
...managed the (unsuccessful) reform campaigns of John M. Harlan (1905) and Charles E. Merriam (1911) for Mayor. More successful in local politics was his first wife, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, who cut a figure in the Legislature...
...Alexander found, Slavic brothers do not always agree. The Serbs, 6,500,000 strong, had always ruled, intended to continue to rule. The 4,000,000 hardworking, stubborn Croats, used to their own local Diet at Zagreb even under the Habsburgs, felt they were a repressed minority, agitated for local autonomy, civil rights, the secret ballot, constitutional reform. The Slovenes, 1,000,000 of them, clustered up near the old Austrian border, shrewdly bargained for political favors. Thrown in also were 500,000 potentially troublesome Germans, 440,000 difficult Magyars, tens of thousands of White Russian exiles. The majority...
...purpose of this step, taken after consultation with the Student Council, is to call the attention of non-resident students to the local motor laws, which, among other things forbid the operation of an out-of-state car for more than 30 days without obtaining a permit from the Registry of Motor Vehicles showing that the owner carries the required minimum insurance...