Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State capital at Springfield one day went Illinois's G.O.P. National Committeeman Werner W. Schroeder and Cook County G.O.P. Chairman John T. Dempsey. From early afternoon until midnight they conferred with ambitious Governor Dwight H. Green in the old, rambling Governor's mansion. Roger Faherty was in Springfield, too; but except for a brief visit to the mansion he spent his time fending off reporters at the Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home...
...Stride. The orders cut to the very heart of daily life; but,by & large the people took them in stride (although no one laughed when 21 oil and gas cars were derailed near Springfield, Ill.). No one looked for complete enforcement of the pleasure-driving ban. After the first day there were surprisingly few violators, but OPA investigators who swarmed over the streets and highways got elaborate excuses. Some direct results of the order...
HENRY FARMER Springfield, Mass...
...night had been just like last year--kidding around with his Yale friends and sleeping on their daybed. He'd seen the whole coaching staff at the Toasty and they'd been so happy he was sure Harvard would win. He'd got up in time to meet the Springfield train and eventually find his date. Lunch, trolley out to the game, and still he felt normal...
...team will take its first taste of road competition, when it faces Massachusetts State on State's homefield. The booters seek their third win of the season, having begun the campaign with successive wins over Tufts, and Clark; and then skidded to a tie with Army, and losses to Springfield and Princeton...