Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was not all George Stevens had "never submitted to public gaze." For more than 30 years he had hidden behind his beard a secret which his fellow townsmen never suspected, learned only after he was dead. Dying, he had spoken of a brother, Grant, in Akron, Ohio. Grant Stevens was notified, and the body was taken to Akron for burial. Hartford City friends, who attended the funeral and met Stevens' brother, his aunt, several nieces and nephews, made the discovery that George Stevens was a Negro...
...cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...
...unhappy marriage, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, his election. As in the play, Actor Raymond Massey turns the trick for him. But there are also shrewd playwrighting touches: reluctant Mr. Lincoln symbolically taken in charge by the soldiers as soon as he wins his election ; Lincoln listening to his fellow townsmen sing John Brown's Body as the Presidential train heads him toward Washington, war, assassination...