Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illinois. There was little doubt that arch-isolationist Senator "Curly" Brooks would easily defeat the Democrats' leftish Paul Douglas, who ignored the party regulars, doggedly waged a futile one-man campaign from his station-wagon jeep. But the Republicans' handsome playboy, Governor Dwight Green, was facing real opposition from political amateur Adlai Stevenson (TIME, March 8).Backed by the nominally independent (but actually pro-Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration...
Germs for Billy. In various states, "Dr." Faiman has had other little brushes with the law. Apparently born in Riga, Latvia (or maybe Minneapolis), he was indicted as an abortionist in St. Paul in 1922. The case was dismissed because of "the condition and attitude of the complainant." In 1925, Faiman told a Chicago court that he had supplied typhoid germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage...
...Paul Donnelly, credit manager for a shoe company, made her a housewife at 17, and she began making neat, ruffled little "apron frocks" for herself. She decided to start the Donnelly Garment Co. -with $1,270 in savings and two power sewing machines-after a Kansas City store sold out a test order of Nellie's dresses in a few hours. Before long the business was grossing $1,000,000. After that, nothing slowed her up much...
Should it rain, the Crimson will cancel its aerial plans for a through-the-middle game, with large Paul Shafer spinning, but the coaching brain trust is hoping that it will not have to resort to this type of play, for the general pattern of practices this week has emphasized the wide-open, Columbia-game type of attack, with end-arounds and passes the keynote...