Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane from the cutter with the news that his father was playing politics with his naval aide, Captain Wilson Brown, his military aide, Colonel Edwin M. Watson. The Press now wanted to know who had won. Franklin Roosevelt looked blank until someone explained they meant the dice-and-pin game called "Politics" (TIME...
...made the trip to Indianapolis. The tournament, No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, costs $200,000, of which half is distributed to contestants as prizes. The rest goes for 32 brand-new alleys with colored gutters and chromium chalk-trays, 30,000 brand-new pins, later sold to the highest bidder, salaries to 200 pin-boys and scorekeepers. After five weeks of record attendance, the Congress last week was preparing to adjourn. Doings...
Illinois politics is a cat's cradle of cross-purposes and cross-alliances hanging between metropolitan Chicago and rural downstate. The four chief candidates for Governor-two in each party-are only four of the numerous pins from which the cradle hangs. On the Democratic side Pin No. 1 is Governor Henry Homer, a lawyer whose enterprise and honesty landed him on the Cook County Probate bench in 1914. There his work put him in touch with many of Chicago's most influential families, who came to esteem him as highly as he was held among his fellow...
...Pin No. 2 is Herman Niels Bundesen. Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during...
...Republican side Pin No. 1 is Lawyer C. Wayland Brooks, who as an assistant State's Attorney helped secure the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Pin No. 2 is onetime (1921-29) Governor Len Small, who ruled Illinois as head of a malodorous Republican machine, but to whom the farmers of Illinois are still grateful for the concrete roads he built...