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...coast on the an gets in and out of trouble in the East as well as in the West His adventures know no boundaries. American Racketeers or Chinese smugglers, all are his meat, For that reason another Phi Beta Kappa finds work in radio. She is Betty Ito, diminutive Chicagoan who earned her key at the University of Chicago. Betty is Japanese by ancestry, American by birth, but she plays a Chinese role in Jack Aumstrong's show...
Without holding a brief for or against the Brothers Goldblatt as a native Chicagoan, I cannot help but resent the implication that a name like Goldblatt will per se besmirch the beauty of State St., and dip its standards into the mud. I would like to point out to you gentlemen of limitless knowledge and particularly to your erudite Chicago editorial staff that such distinguished Anglo-Saxon and Norman names as Marshall Field and Carson, Pine Scott & Co.. rather than symbolizing State St., Chicago, have long stood and do stand forlornly alone amid the non-Aryan hosts...
Blue-eyed, genial William Johnson is the first native Chicagoan to become superintendent since the post was created in 1854. Son of a Danish grocer, he swept high-school classrooms, did odd jobs, saved enough money to go to Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...
Turning to agriculture, the Chicagoan attacked the proposed farm bill now pending in Congress as "Just another way to get around the Supreme Court decision invalidating the A. A. A. The new bill gives a virtual blank check to Secretary Wallaco to continue his economy of scarcity...
...Garden pattern as she changed from glittering courtesan to penitent nun. So far as externals went, Helen Jepson had learned her lesson well. She sang pleasantly and surely, acted more easily than did rich-voiced John Charles Thomas who has had twice her stage experience. But for many a Chicagoan the Jepson impersonation was too careful an imitation of the one her teacher gave. Jepson's good looks were beguiling but she seemed the shadow of Garden as she made her queenly entrance, shamelessly attempted to seduce the monk Athanael, defiantly exhibited her body. Helen Jepson seemed embarrassed when...