Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springfield, Ill., Governor Dwight H. Green vetoed a bill to abolish snapshot-taking in nightclubs, tossed the pub-crawling public a little basic advice: if you don't want to be photographed with the wrong person, go with the right...
Vachel Lindsay was writing about his home town. For him, Springfield was more than the prosy, prosperous seat of Illinois' State Fair; he saw it as a cultural capital of the future, where art would some day vie with corn, hogs and cattle for attention. The hopeful poet, who died in 1931, might well have been pleased by this year's state fair. Last week, for the first time in Illinois history, fine art was among the exhibits...
...will be published this fall in the U.S., by Charles C. Thomas. Springfield...
Illinois' Governor Dwight H. Green, interrupting a vacation to visit the scene, reported that all state mine-safety laws had been complied with. John L. Lewis, interrupting a visit to his mother in Springfield, Ill., was greeted at Old Ben's tipple by his younger brother, 54-year-old, publicity-shy Howard Lewis.* Underground superintendent for No. 8, Howard had luckily not been below when the blast occurred...
Better Half. In Springfield, Mo., Mrs. Orpha Mabee, suing for divorce, charged that when she served steak & onions, Mr. Mabee ate up all the steak, left her the onions...