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...under the auspices of the CIO and AFL, Palmer offered lectures for a short time in Rockford, Illinois, on the "American Constitutional System." "I have no doubt that this sort of program could be successfully carried out all over the country," he asserted. "We need a politically-educated electorate or our democracy means little...
Neither did the League. Only four teams played last year: the Rockford (Ill.) Peaches, South Bend Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Comets. In a 108-game schedule, they drew some 200,000 fans and a $125,000 gate, but wound up $75,000 in the hole...
Illinois' tousled Representative Everett M. Dirksen, who is really campaigning for second place, wound up his tour at Rockford, Ill. And Washington newsmen heard that Lieut. Commander Harold E. Stassen, talking to a friend under a palm tree in the South Pacific, had said he would not stop presentation of his name to the convention...
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Even more unmistakably different from N.A.M.'s usual frostily Big Business façade was the attitude of its newly elected president, Robert M. Gaylord, who heads Rockford, Ill.'s small Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. Early-bird reporters flocking to N.A.M.'s press room caught his easy reply to a worried Old Guard trying to coach him on how to avoid "embarrassing questions." "They can't ask me any embarrassing questions," said Bob Gaylord blandly. Nor could they...