Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the Illinois vote east to the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan 15 months ago, last week took the Governor of New York west to Chicago. He arrived in a private car with 15 backers and carried Al Smith off for a day in Chicago and a big Democratic picnic. "We asked him to come because we liked him," said Mr. Brennan affably...
...carried him by automobile some 20 or 25 miles out of Chicago to the Beverly Hills forest preserve. Newspaper men trooped along- some Manhattan papers going so far as to send men on for the event-because they were sure it was going to be a great picnic, and because they were sure it was going to be the beginning of the "Smith for President in 1928" movement...
...great picnic. Nearly 100,000 of Boss Brennan's followers met on a great hillside pasture, but the fireworks failed to materialize. Mr. Smith said it was too much to expect states to reduce their expenses as much as the Federal Government had done, because the states had no war expenses to clean away. From then on he did not touch on another national issue-not Prohibition, nor the Ku Klax Klan. The crowd applauded but it did not go wild...
With examination worries past and only Commencement formalities between them and their degrees, the Seniors will revive this afternoon the traditional Senior picnic. The class will assemble at 1.30 o'clock in the Yard and march in a body to the Stadium, where the whole afternoon will be devoted to organized and unorganized amusement...
...Senior picnics were formerly a regular event in the program of the graduating class, but after 1922 were discarded. The custom is being revived this year. The picnic, as has always been the case, will be financed by the money begged from the Freshman class before the latter's picture was taken. The sum collected this spring was larger than any previous one in the history of the Senior beggings, it amounted...