Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 63 gassed, weeping, retching sit-downers fled from two North Chicago plants in 1937, they presented U. S. Labor and jurisprudence with the celebrated case of NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (TIME, March 1, 1937, et. seq.). Issue: Sit-down v. Property...
...that they are as untrue as they sound. But it is true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...
...years ago in Chicago St. Dismas came into his own. The Good Thief attracted the whimsical but devout interest of a convert to Roman Catholicism, Dempster MacMurphy of the Daily News. Orator, raconteur, ex-song-&-dance man, MacMurphy was a well-born Southerner who added a "Mac" to his natal Murphy simply because there were no MacMurphys in the telephone book. He made a fortune as a vice president in the Insull empire, lost it in the crash, slept on park benches until he got a job on the News. One of his first News stories was about the feast...
...Institute of Human Relations is an unorthodox, pioneering institution. First of its kind in the U. S. it was founded ten years ago by two bright Yale deans, Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Law School (now University of Chicago's president) and Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz of the Medical School (now retired). They decided that physical scientists and social scientists working together might start a new science of human relations whereby man could learn to be happier and on better terms with his fellows...
Werner W. Jaeger, formerly a professor at the University of Berlin, and since 1936 a professor at the University of Chicago, was appointed yesterday as University professor effective September...