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There were three big question marks in the westward advances. The first was Illinois, Governor Stevenson's home state. The governor was carrying Chicago as any good Democrat should, but his total margin in Cook County looked so small that he could not possibly overbalance the strong Republican vote downstate. (Stevenson's hand-picked successor as the Democratic candidate for governor was running ahead of Stevenson who in 1948 had run nearly half a million votes ahead of Harry Truman.) In Michigan, heavily...
...Kasson, Minn., where 100,000 are expected to hear him speak at the National Plowing Contest. He will move on to Indianapolis for a Republican rally September 9. After a speech to the American Federation of Labor convention in New York City in mid-September, he will turn westward for a whistle-stop tour through the Midwest farmland...
...Named for but no kin to famed Charles Kingsley, 19th century clergyman and novelist (Westward Ho!), who served as Queen Victoria's chaplain...
...private colleges like Stanford and Oberlin, grew in academic stature and began to appeal to students all over the country. Harvard, armed with with a reputation and a National Scholarship program, was able to ignore the competition until Eastern schools like Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth began to expand westward...
Back Door. It was a crashing conquest for the man who flew westward out of Washington one afternoon last week, a known soldier but an unknown candidate...