Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey got his carefully planned campaign off to a careful start last week. Everything ticked with the precision of a metronome. From Pawling to Pittsburgh to Springfield, Ill., to St. Louis and back, the schedule rolled efficiently through, each part of the whole falling trimly into place, on time...
Parcel No. 2, at Springfield, enabled Tom Dewey to pay the traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...
Married. 2nd Lieut. Angela Bertolo Bertelli, 23, last season's Notre Dame All-America forward-passing quarter back, Heisman Trophy winner (1943); and Gilda Lena Passerini, 22, his longtime girl friend; in West Springfield, Mass...
...This week seized another unit of Montgomery Ward & Co. (Hummer Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Ill.). Reason for the seizure was the same as at Chicago: Montgomery Ward's refusal to obey a WLB order calling for union maintenance of membership. This time there was one difference: the Hummer Co., maker of propellers and carburetors, is a bona fide, though tiny (525 employes) war plant...
...Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield, Mass. (TIME, May 8, 15) got home from Moscow last week. He arrived in the U.S. by plane via Alaska, where, finding himself short of funds, he borrowed $200 from a U.S. Army chaplain at Fairbanks. To photographers at Seattle he shouted: "You should be at the front fighting instead of staying at home taking pictures." At reporters he wagged a stubby finger: "I am a tired man. It is good to get home but I have no other statement to make." When they persisted, he threatened to "give somebody a trimming...