Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally found someone to fill the important job of chairman of the Munitions Board, a post for which the Senate had refused to accept Carl A. Ilgenfritz because he would not give up his $70,000 salary from U.S. Steel. The nominee: Hubert E. Howard, 60-year-old Chicago coal executive, who has been serving as personnel policy chief in the Defense Department...
...partnership ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...
...February the show will move from Washington to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, spend two months there and two months each in Chicago's Art Institute and San Francisco's De Young Museum before its return to Vienna...
...which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman's guide to modern psychiatry...
...since the New York Daily News ghoulishly sneaked a picture of Murderess Ruth Snyder*dying in Sing Sing's electric chair, in 1928, had such a death-house hullabaloo stirred the U.S. press. Chicago's lusty, raucous Herald-American had started it by running a Page One "exclusive photograph" of the electrocution of "Mad Dog Killer" James Morelli, 22, who had killed four men in what crime-loving Hearst newspapers called "the worst Chicago mass killing since the St. Valentine's Day massacre...