Word: julians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know a nigger is moving into the neighborhood?" an Oak Park druggist whispered to his customers several months ago. The newcomer to the neighborhood around Chicago and East Avenues was indeed a Negro. He was also one of the nation's ablest chemists. Percy Levon Julian A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard and the University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama...
...Park, there were people who attached more importance to the color of a man's skin than to his achievements. The town's only two Negro families lived in the northern section. Julian paid $34,000 for an ornate 15-room house in Chicago Avenue neighborhood, and began spending $8,000 more for landscaping and improvements, intending to move his wife and two children in by Christmas. When the news got out, the water commissioner refused to turn on the water until the Julians threatened to go to court. Anonymous telephone callers made threats...
...Percy Julian, a proud, energetic man of 51, stood his ground and served notice that his family would move into the house by New Year's Day. He hired (for $36 a day) a private, round-the-clock guard to patrol the property with bulldog and shotgun. "We've lived through these things all our lives," said Percy Julian. "As far as the hurt to the spirit goes, we've become accustomed to that...
...four other members of the executive committee have also helped put the post-war Debate Council back on its feet. They are: Bruce S. Lano '52, home secretary, Loster L. Ward '52, corresponding secretary, Julian I. Edison '51, publicity director, and John G. Morey, H'52, competition director, and A. Werner Plaus, vice-president...
...course, Caldwell suffered losses through graduation. Among the notables gone were Captain George Sella, a very good wingback, fullback John Powers, and three offensive line veterans, Don Cohn, Norm Moore, and Julian Buxton. Yet despite the "losses," the Tigers have knocked off Williams, Rutogers, Navy, Brown, Cornell, and Colgate on consecutive week-ends. The schedule is not particularly impressive, but Princetin's easy 27 to 0 victory over last year's Ivy League champion Cornell went far towards proving the Tigers real mettle...