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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Iowa-born Admiral William D. Leahy. But seadogs old & young, already convinced that Roosevelt II is Navy's best Presidential booster since Roosevelt I, last week had a better reason to rejoice in their biggest Navy...
...Author. Born to a comfortably-fixed Philadelphia family about 50 years ago, Chic Conwell married a chorus girl while he was ushering in a theatre, began using narcotics with her, left home to become a pimp. For 20 years he circulated around U. S. and European cities, working successively as a shoplifter, pickpocket, confidence man. He was sent to prison three times for a total of five years. Between his third release and his death in 1933, he had several legitimate jobs, one of which was writing his book on a weekly wage from the University of Chicago...
...treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, a charter as the Chicago Teachers Union. Local No. 1 of the Federation. With 6,500 members, one-half the total teaching staff of Chicago's public schools. the largest and most powerful teachers' union in the U. S. was born...
Within 72 hours the infant's blackened eyes were healed, his pneumonia gone, his cheeks unscarred. So, four years ago, testified Dr. Michael J. Horan and two colleagues, before a Chicago tribunal investigating the sanctity of Mother Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). The tribunal declared that the triple healing was "a wonder performed by supernatural power as sign of some special mission, and explicitly ascribed to God." In Manhattan last fortnight declared Dr. Horan, a Catholic: "The average man does not believe in miracles...
Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...