Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moppets-stimulated by Chicago's Columbian Exposition and promotional propaganda of the Youth's Companion-first chanted these immortal words on the first official Columbus Day, in 1892. For over 40 years, however, there has been no certainty who wrote them...
Paul Howard Douglas has spent almost half his 47 years teaching political economy and sociology at the University oi Chicago. Politics has long been his avocation. In 1932 he urged all non-conservatives to vote for Norman Thomas. Last year he was the principal speaker at an anti-Nazi mass meeting...
...until last month did Reformer Douglas achieve political office. Then he was elected alderman by the town-&-gown black-&-white fifth ward, became the most sensemaking of the 50 members of Chicago's City Council. Last week Professor-Alderman Douglas, having encountered one of the things that make a politician's life hard, devised his own way of facing it To his constituents he issued a typewritten appeal...
Last fall, shortly after President Roosevelt called a National Health Conference in Washington, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association met in Chicago to consider the recommendations of the conference. Although A.M.A. spokesmen had been hostile to any suggestion of "Federal interference" in medicine, the House made an about-face in Chicago, indicated their approval of: Government care for indigent patients, expansion of public health services, construction of Federal hospitals where needed, expansion of voluntary health insurance schemes. Their only remaining objection was to compulsory health insurance which was discussed at the conference...
...followed this with graduate work at Wisconsin and University of Chicago, where he coached football under Amos Alonzo Stagg. A Ph.D. thesis on Illinois school finance in 1924 started Floyd Reeves toward national renown. He made 400 surveys of school systems and colleges, became the No. 1 U. S. expert on college administration, directed a survey of University of Chicago, where he is still a professor, that shaped the Hutchins plan...