Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's old Boss Ed Kelly was there, talking to Jersey City's debonair old Boss Frank Hague, who wore a straw boater and flourished a cane. With other Democratic National Committee members, they had gathered in Washington's Mayflower...
...good friend of mine but also the President's . . ." The letters got him a $5,600-a-year job with the State Department and free transportation to Greece with a U.S. mission at a time when he was also drawing $1,000 a month from Albert Verley & Co., Chicago perfume importers...
Coolidge's Vice President and now board chairman of Chicago's City National Bank and Trust Co., celebrated his 84th birthday by brushing off newsmen who wanted his views on the state of the world. Growled Dawes: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...
...University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago this week, a gaunt, sallow-faced man, a sufferer from cancer of the throat, stepped into a basement room furnished only with an improvised table, a mirror and an awesome machine. Technicians arranged the cancer victim on the table while Dr. Roger A. Harvey peered through the strange machine's ring sights (like those on an aircraft machine gun) at the patient's neck. When the apparatus was aimed just right, the technicians left the room...
...Ideas. Co-chairman of the Workshop with Snyder, and a recognized leader in the field of religious radio, is energetic, balding Everett C. Parker, 36. He was working for a radio station in Chicago when a Methodist minister asked him to help get a sponsor for a religious show. Parker became so interested in the field that he began experimenting with new program ideas, ended by getting 152 churches to cooperate in a regular broadcast. Parker quit his job to study for the ministry, was ordained a Congregational pastor in 1943, and began to devote his full time...