Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 3-Vice President Richard M. Nixon told reporters this afternoon that Adlai Stevenson was "naive and irresponsible." He made the charges in reference to the Democratic candidate's proposals on ending the draft and banning all hydrogen bomb tests...
Because only one instead of the previous three tea dances was to be held in 1952, the CRIMSON decided to hold the Miss Radcliffe competition in public for the first time. The finals were held on Sept. 27 during the intermission of the Leverett House Springfield football dance...
...Democratic state central committee of Illinois met in Springfield one day last week to perform an embarrassing chore. Their problem, as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley put it, was to choose in "open and free balloting" a substitute for Cook County Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen, who stepped out of the race for governor two weeks ago, after disclosures that a $29,000 employees' "welfare fund" administered by his office had been used for political purposes (TIME, Sept...
...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...
...conference with Butler, Stevenson made it clear that Finnegan, not Butler, would be the "architect" of the campaign. Finnegan will set up headquarters in Washington, near those of the national committee, so that there will be no "two-headed monster" like that of 1952, when Stevenson campaign offices in Springfield frequently worked at cross purposes with capital leaders. Butler's only 1956 duties: those of an "administrator." Exactly what he will administer was never made clear...