Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutchins, now president of the University of Chicago, once called Bill Douglas the "outstanding professor of law of the nation." Douglas wrote a textbook and taught three courses to earn his way through Columbia Law School, was graduated No. 2 in his class. For two years with the high-powered Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood he threaded the jungles of corporate law and finance. He went back to teach at Columbia, was called to Yale where he became Sterling Professor, declined an even finer chair at Chicago, went to SEC in 1934 on Joe Kennedy...
...Maude Ault and her son, Robert Eugene, who had been running a gas station near Decatur, Ill., visited Mrs. Ault's brother, Lorenson K. Bandy, in River Forest (Chicago suburb) and told him about a certain Max Orendorff, who: 1) had been one of their farmer acquaintances; 2) had turned bootlegger; 3) had made a fortune in the days when Capone flourished; 4) had been sent to Atlanta. If the Aults could help him get out of prison, said Mrs. Ault, Max Orendorff had promised to make it well worth their while...
...Then came word that he had died, leaving loyal Maude Ault and her son all his holdings in Illinois and Texas real estate, oil lands worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. To help the Aults collect their vast inheritance, Mr. Bandy put up more money. A Chicago business man named Newton F. Grey, said the Government, invested $76,890. From other investors the Aults got some $40,000 more. But the Orendorff fortune never materialized. Last September, postal investigators decided they knew...
Introduced to a Chicago lecture audience by Novelist Margaret Aver Barnes (Years of Grace, Wisdom's Gate), Sinclair Lewis declared that he and her husband, Chicago Attorney Cecil Barnes, are in the same boat: "I also am married to a very distinguished woman [talkative Columnist Dorothy Thompson]. She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
...this U. S. visit, Professor Krogh will lecture at the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago as well as Swarthmore, attend biological meetings in Manhattan and elsewhere, taking with him his plain, patient wife, who is a doctor of medicine and has done valuable research on metabolism. Born to a brewer in Denmark's Jutland 65 years ago, August Krogh (pronounced Krug) was fascinated by beetle larvae at the age of four. At the University of Copenhagen he ripped with great speed and facility through courses in physics, chemistry and biology, specialized in zoology, studied the respiration of marine animals...