Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Direction. Liberal Democratic in its politics, the Denver-headquartered Farmers Union counts on its membership rolls some 300,000 families, mainly in the wheat country of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain states. Of the union's 61 annual conventions, only two have been held east of Springfield, Ill.: one in Washington, three years ago, and last week's gathering in New York...
...featherweight championship of the world from Nigeria's Hogan Bassey in 1959, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in., 126 lbs.) Davey Moore liked most to boast of his boyhood reputation as the best fist-foot-knee-and-thumb fighter ever produced by Kiefer Junior High School in Springfield. Ohio. Son of a Negro clergyman, Moore was a professional of sorts by the time he was seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and scrambling for coins tossed into the ring. Officially turning pro in 1953, he seemed only a so-so boxer until 1957, when...
...Coast Guard Invitational Tournament, which has as many participants as the Intercollegiate, he finished second in the 177lb. class. Although the team split its matches 5.5 this year, Pereira ended the season with a 7-3 record, losing to Springfield, Columbia, and Yale...
...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
Somewhat obscured by the competition, the Republicans held their Lincoln Day gatherings to honor the party's first winning presidential candidate. Much of what the speakers said was as predictable as what Democrats say at Jefferson-Jackson dinners. At Springfield, Ill., the voice of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen summoned the party to "plow the long, hard furrow through which the Republican Party came to power and saved the Union in grave hours." Republican National Chairman William Miller thundered that the G.O.P. "must win in '64, or there won't be a country worth saving...