Word: sleeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie flew from Colorado Springs, slept at the home of Mary Sleeth, his farm manager, in nearby Rushville. There was no place for the crowd to sleep-the 48 rooms of the only hotel, the Sidwell (Sleep well at the Sidwell), had been taken weeks before. First-comers moved peacefully into the private homes of Elwood, renting the rooms as the homeowners slept on the living-room floor or out on the grass in the backyard. Late arrivals drove straight to Callaway Park, where the speech was to be delivered, to be on hand for good seats...