Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold the airlines, the opening of North Beach is a sad blow. But it is a blow to civic prestige rather than to civic economy. From Newark to Manhattan and Queens will move several thousand airport employes and their families (to be joined by workers from Chicago and other points along the lines). In the business of Newark merchants, their departure will make no discernible dent...
...succeed the late famed Utilitarian James Simpson, directors of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. last week elected a new chairman: big, white-haired General Counsel Charles Yoe Freeman...
Most library exhibitions are the englassed sort which chiefly interest bibliophiles-rare first editions, original manuscripts, fine bindings, and such. Of a different sort is an exhibition now showing at Chicago's Newberry Library...
Consisting of 218 books, 25 posters, 17 issues of a literary magazine called The Chap-Book, it includes most of the works published between 1893 and 1905 by the late great Chicago publishing house of Stone & Kimball (later Herbert S. Stone & Co.).* To a generation that looks to the East for intelligent publishing, the story of this output is provocative...
...Harvard dormitory was Stone & Kimball's first office. Herbert Stuart Stone, described as a "martinet" in appearance, an "exquisite" in taste, was the son of the founder-editor of the Chicago Daily News...