Word: chicagoan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for 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...
...anonymous Chicagoan stated, "Harvard alumni throughout the nation hand their heads in shame and disgust at Harvard's tolerance for...pro-Red professors...
...Acting as the front man of a national MacArthur organization last week was a Chicagoan named Warren Wright, onetime Illinois State Treasurer, long a GOParty hack. The two men who chiefly told Wright what to do and what not to do were 1) General Robert E. Wood (retired), Sears, Roebuck & Co. chairman; 2) Edward A. Hayes, onetime American Legion national commander. Other MacArthur strategists: Hanford MacNider, also a onetime Legion national commander; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Van Zandt, onetime commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Nebraska's Congressman Arthur L. Miller; Alfred O'Gara...
Northside is based on the true story (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945) of one Joe Majczek, a Chicagoan charged with the murder of a policeman in 1932 and sentenced to 99 years in Stateville Penitentiary. Majczek was cleared, almost 13 years later, through the efforts of his mother and of a reporter for the Chicago Times...
...Givens, 37, a Chicagoan with bright blue eyes and bright new ideas, always wanted to be a nurse. But after she started to work, she had some doubts. Most of her patients were babies and they were usually a little soggy. So, off-duty, she tried to develop a waterproof outer diaper. She finally devised a "Dri-ette," two pieces of flannel bonded to a waterproof center which eliminated the objections of many mothers to rubber pants. The Dri-ette was not patentable but it did the trick. Babies could get wet, but nobody else would...