Word: sangamon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water. Now we have to save it from the people." Moreover, the conservationists are well aware that many more of America's remaining wild rivers are ticketed for taming. Among some 70 dams on the corps' boards or under construction are projects that would affect the Sangamon in Illinois (the tributary taken by Abe Lincoln in leaving the backwoods), the Big Walnut in Indiana, the Snake in Idaho and the St. John in Maine...
...Government's view of what constituted legitimate political use differed widely from Stratton's. The prosecution recalled that Stratton built a $63,000 lodge overlooking the Sangamon River, spent $5,000 remodeling his family home. The defense countered that both lodge and family home were used for official entertainment. There was also a $4,750 houseboat that Stratton kept moored near the lodge. But Witness Fasseas testified that he and nine other Republicans bought the boat for Stratton as a birthday present and, besides, "meetings were going on constantly" aboard it-once a state Supreme Court justice fell...
Last week Kerner's campaign manager, Theodore Isaacs, 53, withdrew to defend himself against conflict of interest charges being investigated by a Sangamon County grand jury. Isaacs and Kerner have been buddies ever since 1938, when they met in the Illinois National Guard. As Cook County judge in 1955, Kerner appointed Isaacs attorney for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. Isaacs managed Kerner's successful 1960 race for Governor, was rewarded by appointment to the $15,000 job as director of state revenue. He ran the Revenue Department, which collects some 75% of the state's cash...
...common stamp was indelible on him, whether he was campaigning in Sangamon County, wearing a calico shirt and old straw hat, with six inches of blue socks showing from beneath his pants, or whether he stood at a White House reception, his hands enormous in white gloves that as often as not burst under some diplomat's hand clasp. And yet Lincoln always had a sense of being different and apart. John Hay, his longtime presidential secretary, wrote that it was "absurd to call him a modest...