Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among previous Godkin Lectures have been Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota and president of the University of Pennsylvania; Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks of New York City; Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago; and Australian economist D. B. Copeland...
...people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
Fireworks for Fans. He had grown up in the baseball business, beginning with the Chicago Cubs, where his father was club president. Bill himself had been everything from office boy to treasurer at Wrigley Field; in 1941, with the help of Midwest friends, he had bought control of the Milwaukee Brewers. When he moved into Cleveland after the war, he thought he knew how to give the fans their money's worth...
...Chicago Bears 30, Pittshburgh...
...Chicago Cardinals 31, Low Angeles...