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Just before the heavy weather of the post-War depression, Drugman Queeny put out a sea anchor in Britain by buying a half interest in a Welsh concern making phenol (pure carbolic acid). In 1929 Monsanto absorbed Rubber Service Laboratories with a plant in Nitro, W. Va. for producing chemicals used in rubber processing. Same year Monsanto acquired the Buffalo, N. Y. plant of Mathieson Alkali Works and Merrimac Chemical Co. at Everett, Mass., oldest and largest New England manufacturer of heavy chemicals for the textile, paper and tanning industries. Monsanto has lost money in only three years since...
...University of Chicago, which opens Oct. 1, announced that it would have as a student Mrs. Ruth Walgreen Dart, daughter of Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who last spring loudly withdrew his niece, Lucille Norton, from the University called it a hotbed of Communism, precipitated a fruitless legislative investigation (TIME, April...
RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...
...Yalemen quickly realized, was burlesquing William Randolph Hearst, but elsewhere in the land Red scares were no laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring U. of C. to heel...
...other days kings kept minstrels, to tell the world what mighty men their masters were. U. S. tycoons do not keep minstrels but sometimes they have literate friends. Such a convenient friend to Drugman Louis Kroh Liggett is Author Samuel Merwin (Silk, Temperamental Henry). Last week Liggett drugstores throughout the U. S. were featuring on their cut-rate book counters this "amazing TRUE story of a man who conceived the greatest cooperative organization in history." Because there is no such thing as a Pure Blurb and Ballyhoo Law, Publisher Boni could not be sued for misrepresentation. On the other hand...