Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward L. Rogers, Springfield, Massachusetts--Classical High School, Springfield...
...insistence of Driver Thomas, thought he might in two or three years have a really great trotter. The fastest active U. S. trotter, Edward J. Baker's five-year-old Grey hound, who stepped a mile in 1:57¼ in a free-for-all at Springfield, Ill. last year, did only 2:02¼ in winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen in 1:58¼, once more failing to break the 1:56¾ world record set in 1922 at Lexington by famed Peter Manning...
...going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between the president and the board," barked Tyler Dennett, "has been whether he should be regarded as an employe...
That night in Springfield, Mass., a linotype r of that rock-ribbed patriarch among U. S. newspapers, the Republican (founded 1824), set up an editorial which read: "Such an emotional spectacle as that of Senator McCarran of Nevada speaking after a prolonged illness, in passionate opposition to the Supreme Court Bill, is by no means unprecedented in the annals of Congressional debate. Other Senators have also taken the floor, disregarding their physicians' orders, with the knowledge common in the Senate galleries that the effort might cost their lives...
Next morning the nation heard news that made the Springfield Republican a prophet of doom and caused Artist Woolf to fly his drawing to New York for immediate publication in the Times. The leader of the Administration forces in the Senate and the man who refused to count unhatched chickens, Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, was found dead (see p. 10). The penciled signature on Artist Woolf's drawing was one of the last copies of that loyal autograph and, at the very hour in the night when the Springfield Republican was coming off the presses...