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In Illinois, Everett M. Dirkson captured the seat for the Republicans from Senate majority leader Scott W. Lucas. The margin of victory widened as late down-state returns came in.
Senator Scott Lucas, loping along confidently in Illinois wooing the downstate farmers, suddenly glanced back and saw his Chicago citadel in danger. Normally, Cook County Boss Jake Arvey could be expected to give him a fine 200,000 Democratic majority in the big city. But now, hanging lumpily on Lucas...
Thoroughly scared, Democrats last week decided that they just couldn't explain Tubbo. They did the next best thing; they tried to make the voters look somewhere else. Squads of paste and bucket men were sent rushing out to some 500 billboards which carried pictures of various lesser Democratic...
Lucas read from his notebook: "From 1932 to 1949, the value of Crawford County livestock increased 406%."
Died. Edward Joseph Kelly, 74, four-term mayor of Chicago, shrewdest of the four big Democratic city bosses of the last generation;* of a heart attack; in Chicago. Born in a tough "Back of the Yards" slum, roughhewn Ed Kelly was a master of the oratorical foot-in-the-mouth...