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Fortunately for the Republican Party-not to say Broadway-Dirksen's strict, God-fearing mother did not take kindly to the idea of her son becoming a professional actor. Dirksen therefore hitched his wagon to a political star. He announced for city finance commissioner in 1926 and won. Four years later, he decided to run against Peoria's incumbent Republican Congressman, William E. Hull. One key issue: the importation to the U.S. of blackstrap molasses, a vital question for Pekin's corn-processing and distillery businesses. Ev lost, but on the day after election he began campaigning...
...that he was raised by penniless foster parents, who "never took five cents" in welfare funds. "Some people may think we don't know what it is to wear tennis shoes in the snow. I went from one end of the community to the other with a little wagon gathering up scraps saved for me by housewives so I could feed the hogs. I was out of high school for 16 years before I could go to college. So never let it be said that I look at this problem from any ivory tower...
Impulsively, Niven puts wife and President in his ranch wagon, makes tracks for the border...
Cobb invited them into his station wagon for a chat and, after they confronted him with curious similarities in the two lives, finally said with the hapless resignation of a man awakened from a beautiful dream: "Let's stop kidding around, fellows. You know the truth." Soon he issued a public statement: "I hold a deep affection for my legal wife and adopted son. I hold a deep affection for the mother of my two young natural sons. I intend to resign." He quit both the senatorial race and the state chairmanship...
...mining man named Don Juan de Oñate the right to found, at his own expense, a colony on the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico. Oñate set out for his new domain leading an army of 400 Spanish settlers and soldiers, 83 wagons and carts, 7,000 head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan and a party of adventurers pressed up the Rio Grande. In July 1598 they...