Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Listening in the Senate gallery was Mrs. Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, a portly mulatto from Chicago. Mrs. Gordon raises her cream-coffee arms, shouts to her audiences: "There's amalgamation for you! See what it does to us!" Most of the "signatures" on Mr. Bilbo's petition were gathered from 45 States by her Peace Movement of Ethiopia, a repatriationist cult which has its headquarters at her apartment on Chicago's South Side. Bales of letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some...
...future. It had made (with WPA's help) the first national study of how college men and women fare after graduation.* It got its answers from some 46,000 alumni, vintages 1928 to 1935, of 31 representative institutions including Boston University, New York University, University of Chicago and University of Southern California; State universities such as Vermont's and Illinois'; small institutions such as Duquesne, Mercer, Colorado State; but not such colleges as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Smith, Wellesley...
Divorced. Dorothy Lamour (real name: Dorothy Slaton), 24, sloe-eyed cinemactress; by Herbie Kay (real name: Herbert D. Kaumeyer), 30, sweet jazzband leader; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
Married. Richard Scott Mowrer, Rome correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, son of its editor, Paul Scott Mowrer, nephew of its Paris correspondent, Edgar Ansel Mowrer; and Rosamund Cole, of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; in Rome, 20 minutes before the bridegroom had to leave Italy because the censor did not like his dispatches...
Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...