Word: nashe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public, Chairman Hamilton's remark was characteristically optimistic. The Illinois primary was chiefly significant to Illinois, and since 1933 the time-honored complexities of Illinois politics have had, as their central theme, the struggle for State control between Democratic Governor Henry Horner and Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine. Last week victories of his two candidates for Senator and county judge made it look as though Governor Horner had finally...
...Chicago and half lives "downstate," and the unwillingness of the twain to meet has made Illinois politics as unpredictable to the experts of the Roosevelt regime as to most of their predecessors. In 1932 the Chicago Democratic machine of Mayor Edward J. Kelly and old Boss Patrick A. Nash reached out to help Downstater William. H. Dieterich of Beardstown beat Downstater Scott W. Lucas of Havana for the U. S. Senate. Since then downstate has acquired an efficient political boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with...
Both machines had other plans. Figuring that so long as they had to fight downstate they had better have a more effective campaigner, Bosses Kelly and Nash gave Bill Dieterich his walking papers. Their candidate, they indicated, would be U. S. District Attorney Michael L. Igoe. Irishman Igoe, a Chicago political veteran, had a major stroke of luck when Federal G-men last month captured Peter Anders, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Chicago greeting-card Manufacturer Charles Ross, took him from California to Chicago to be prosecuted by Mike Igoe's office. Candidate Igoe had himself photographed with Kidnapper...
Class of 1939: Jerome Le R. Abrams, Long Branch, New Jersey; Josef Alexander Brighton; Bernard Barber, Cambridge: Robert H. Goldman, Lowell; Robert E. Lane, New York; Victor A. Lewinson, New York; James R. Muenger, Toledo. Ohio; Leonard K. Nash, New York; Sidney D. Ross, Lynn; Leon N. Satenstein, Malden; Bernard J. Siegel, Superior, Wisconsin; and William Q. Wolfson, Brooklyn...
Sponsoring the meeting are progressive forces such as the State Federation of Labor, the Massachusetts Council of Teachers' Unions, the League of Women Voters, and the Civil Liberties organization. Norman B. Nash, Robert Paino Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theological School has lent his support to the movement...