Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never before had a woman made so serious a bid for a Senate seat. For weeks Mrs. McCormick has stumped the state through storm and snow. An expert campaigner with an inherited flair for politics, she had built up an organization of workers in every one of Illinois' 102 counties. She asked for the women's vote, but she could truthfully say she did not want it simply because she was a woman. No professional feminist is Mark Hanna's daughter, but that rare thing among women, a truly professional politician...
...herself a remarkable statewide vote-getter in 1928 when she rolled up some 1,700,000 votes which elected her congressman-at-large. Now she has the support of potent elements of the regular state organization, including Percy B. McCullough, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and Barney W. Snow, Chicago G. 0. P. leader...
...pressure area, fitful with Spring, drifted eastward across the land last week, suddenly squatted over northern Indiana. Down to earth raced many winds, flapping from their wings an enormous flutter of feathery snow. Forty-four hours later when the low pressure area was ready to move on again, the Midwest was blanketed beneath one of its worst snowfalls in recorded weather history...
...Snow fell as far south as Atlanta. Detroit and St. Louis were under a four-inch coating of winter. Rural roads in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan were impassably choked. The snowfall centred in Chicago where 19.1 inches, a record, swept down in 44 hours, to be twirled up by a 40-mile gale off Lake Michigan into ten-foot drifts...
Like ants emerging from a wrecked sand hill, Chicago citizens twisted and wriggled themselves out of their white entombment, proclaimed their plight to the world. Street traffic stalled completely, until 20,000 shovelers dug narrow channels through the drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars...