Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Sheil realizes that the backbone of his Church is the same lowly worker who is also C. I. O.'s backbone. Lately he became interested in the Back-of-the-Yards Neighborhood Council, organized by Saul Alinsky, University of Chicago sociology graduate who for social research once lived with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read...
Infected by the general excitement, U. S. foreign correspondents became fairly spooky themselves. "There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
There had been altogether too much discussion, it was said, about who should succeed Il Duce, Dino Grandi or his bearded "twin," Italo Balbo, leader of the famed mass flight to the Chicago Fair. Grandi was "exiled" as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1933 and Hero Balbo was made Governor of Libya, in which hot and barren land he sits to this day. Last week Ambassador Count Grandi was recalled from London to become Minister of Justice, and observers wondered whether he had not again been kicked upstairs...
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...
When Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones began the Central City festival (with Lillian Gish in Camille), he frowned on sideshows, drinking shindigs in the Teller House bar. Present producer-director of the festival is Frank St. Leger, Chicago musician. Last week square dances, tintype studios, night-club entertainers flourished once more in Central City. With The Yeomen running up the best box office in recent years, likelihood was that the festival would henceforth stick to plushy musical shows...