Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newbold Morris of Manhattan (president of the New York City Council) reported that a committee of which he is treasurer had $250,000 to pay for transporting the 20,000 children if admitted, and 1,400 unsolicited offers of adoption. Herbert Hoover chimed in. Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago sent word: "These children have done no wrong...
Died. Charles Blair Macdonald, 83, stockbroker, first U. S. Amateur golf champion (1895), designer of the first 18-hole golf course in the U. S. (Chicago Golf Club); after long illness; in Southampton...
...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...
Last April Su-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for dissection. By last week Anatomist D. Dwight Davis had nearly made up his mind that the panda, the bear and the raccoon shared a common ancestor. He had completely made up his mind about something else: Su-Lin was a male...
...Last week the Chicago Daily Times sent Reporter Dan Smyth (no kin) and a photographer out from murky Chicago to look for spring. Two days later they reported finding it at Bald Knob...