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Station WLS (standing for World's Largest Store) was launched in 1924 by Sears, Roebuck & Co. A bevy of guests sounded forth, among them Chicago's Mayor William E. Dever, Jane Addams, the Duncan Sisters. Actress Ethel Barrymore was led up to the mike and, affrighted, throbbed "Oh...
Sir Wilfred Laurier began to watch William Lyon Mackenzie King as early as 1900, when he learned that the young man had entered the civil service (as Deputy Minister of Labor) in preparation for a public career. Up to that time Mackenzie King had been headed for social service. After...
Died. Ellen Gates Starr, 80, co-founder with the late Jane Addams of Chicago's famed Hull House; after long illness; in Suffern, N. Y.
Most arresting proposal in the book (by Hunter College's Frances Morehouse) was that U. S. youngsters should get a new set of heroes. To conventional U. S. heroes, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Miss Morehouse proposed to add: Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Wright Brothers, Elias Howe...
Died. James Weber Linn, 63, "most popular professor" at the University of Chicago where he taught English for 40 years, Illinois State Legislator, nephew and biographer of Jane Addams; at Lakeside, Mich.