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April 8?Illinois primaries tor U. Senate. Republican antagonists: Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick...
Last week Frank Leslie Smith of Dwight, Ill., announced his candidacy as Republican Representative-at-large to succeed Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick who is running for the senatorial nomination in the April primaries (TIME, Jan, 27). As all the world knows, Mr. Smith, now a Class B Candidate, was elected to the Senate in 1926 only to be rejected by that body because of improper campaign contributions and excessive expenditures...
...Princeton is proceeding to a solution of the problem in her own manner, calmly, naturally, and without anything in the nature of an academic revolution. This panacea consists in sub-dividing the university architecturally, as at Harvard and Yale, but in making the units curricular rather than social. Witness McCormick Hall and the Mathematics Building. With the completion of Dickinson Hall, the reform will be complete; it will only be necessary for us to realize that the problem has been solved...
...McCormick felt glum at the prospects, she was not going to admit it to the husbandmen who listened to her speeches nor to the representatives of the press who plied her with questions. She told one and all that her campaigning so far had been "perfectly delightful." After a speech at Carmi, she remarked: "I have spoken to an average of 1,200 persons since I started at Shelbyville last Monday and the reception has been extraordinary." Many of the "1,200" had plowed through deep snow in below zero weather to hear her speak...
...McCormick, it was conceded, had a less than even chance to defeat Senator Deneen. Chicago, with its machine, probably would go Deneen. Down-State might go McCormick unless Newton Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother-in-law of the candidate, had not committed itself beyond regretting the lack of a wet candidate. Should a wet Democrat arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed...