Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRANK HOWELL JR. Mae's Dress Shoppe Chicago, Ill...
...sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound like fire stations...
...good faith will misinterpret these proposals. . . . [The program] is not intended as the beginning of any ill-considered 'trustbusting' activity which lacks proper consideration for economic results. It is a program to preserve private enterprise for profit by keeping it free enough to be able to utilize all our resources of capital and labor at a profit...
Born in Kenosha, Wis., Orson before the age of ten was a professional actor, ma-ing $25 a day dressed up as Peter Rabbit in Chicago's Marshall Field's. At twelve, in the progressive Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill., Orson was staging his first production of Julius Caesar-in which he played the Soothsayer, Cassius and Marc Antony with relay-race technique...
...came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties on a gusher producing 450 barrels a day (at current prices...