Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats concerned if Senator Teddy Kennedy, a putative Administration supporter, had put his name on the ballot to keep the state's delegation theoretically uncommitted at the convention, but Teddy gingerly refused. House Speaker John McCormack, 76, also demurred. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, a Springfield native, volunteered to quit his Washington post and run as a standin, but Johnson vetoed the idea, as well as the proposal that State Senate President Maurice Donahue take...
Last month 30 white students from Technical High in Springfield, Mass., brawled with ten Negroes from rival Classical High...
Other clashes seemed to be simpler cases of racial antagonism. The Springfield fight followed heckling by white students of Negro youths seeking service at a nearby cafe. In the Chicago suburb of Maywood, the failure of a student selection committee at Proviso East High to nominate a single Negro girl for homecoming queen set off a protest rally in which some 500 youths hurled bottles at police...
...patriarchal Everett McKinley Dirksen. Also like Arvey, who steered Stevenson instead of the less manageable Douglas toward the Statehouse, Daley is believed to be leaning toward young Stevenson for the governorship despite his reputation as an independent-minded politician. Much as he would like an agreeable team man in Springfield, Daley would like a winner even more, and he can count on Stevenson to run well in Republican strongholds "downstate"-meaning everything outside Cook County...
...Harvard freshman wrestling team came from behind yesterday to defeat Springfield 20-17 at Springfield...