Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Educational Fellowships of the Harvard Graduate School of Education were awarded yesterday to James D. Laurits, an Elgin, III., teacher, Simon Williams, former Dean of Lowell Textile Institute, and Professor R. Lee Hornbake of the University of Maryland...
James D. Laurits, 31, of Cleveland, received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yale in 1940. After three years in the Navy, he received his Master of Arts in Teaching from Chicago and has taught in the Elgin public schools for two years...
...morning last week, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, still smoking his after-breakfast cigarette, stepped briskly out of his apartment house on Ottawa's Elgin Street and walked toward his office on Parliament Hill. To a woman passer-by who smiled at him St. Laurent doffed his Panama. A grinning, unshaven drunk gave him a grandiose wave, got a nod in return. At a busy intersection, a policeman directing traffic kept him waiting at the curb while two streetcars rumbled by. In the five-block walk, only half a dozen Canadians saluted their handsome, 67-year-old Prime Minister...
...True. At first, Mamie was a little confused about identifying Jim. (It was "forgetfulness," explained relatives, a trait which made it necessary several years later to send Mamie to the Elgin State Hospital for the insane, where she died in 1947.) But later she got quite positive about it. At the police station, Montgomery recalls, he was beaten up by the cops and the prosecutor told him, "if you were down in Georgia or Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong...
With the Gang. Masonry is an exclusively male reservation* and one of unassailable respectability. ("You can get off any time you like for a lodge meeting.") Its grand titles satisfy a yearning for rank and prestige. "I am among other things," said a degree-draped Elgin, Ill. photographer, "a Noble of the Shrine, a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters of the York Rite, a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, a Knight of the East and West, a Knight of the Brazen Serpent and a Knight of the Sword. Sometimes when I go home late...