Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet has made Illinois politics as unpredictable to the experts of the Roosevelt regime as to most of their predecessors. In 1932 the Chicago Democratic machine of Mayor Edward J. Kelly and old Boss Patrick A. Nash reached out to help Downstater William. H. Dieterich of Beardstown beat Downstater Scott W. Lucas of Havana for the U. S. Senate. Since then downstate has acquired an efficient political boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with the Kelly-Nash machine and has set up his own "reform" machine...
...prosecuted by Mike Igoe's office. Candidate Igoe had himself photographed with Kidnapper Anders, got into the newsreels with a talk on Crime Does Not Pay. In Springfield, Boss Horner thereupon announced he would have nothing to do with Candidate Dieterich or Candidate Igoe, threw his support to Scott Lucas, who is now a Congressman...
Elephants will dance to the music of Don Gahan and his orchestra at their winter dance on Friday evening, March 11. Headed by Mason Fernald '40, the Dance Committee includes Giles Aertsen '40, Lane Blackwell '39, Scott Long '39, and Robert Kline '38. The House play, scheduled for the same night, has been postponed until later in the spring...
Herbert Hoover's California friends were surprised chiefly that Publisher Scott considered his revelation newsworthy, added that even today regular Hoover checks go to the families of more than 100 of his needy friends...
...abound in the theatrical world and flourish on the baseball diamond. F. Scott Fitzgerald explained that Lardner's silence and confusion resulted from the presence of "ivory" in the circles he _knew: "Remember it was not humble ivory," Fitzgerald wrote, "it was arrogant, imperative, often megalomaniacal ivory.' Since Lardner's death nobody has carried on his work as laureate of this thick-skulled world; nobody has caught the tones of its odd, original speech, or the flavor of its half-ironic, half-fatuous humor. But with a collection of brief sketches published last month, a young Manhattan...