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...colleges. Concentrating on high schools, it has made the greatest headway in Chicago, which today has some 30 junior units in public schools. But in a score of other places the War Department has been rebuffed. Last week it was smartly slapped by an 82-year-old woman in Kenosha...
...Kenosha is a picturesque manufacturing town (pop. 50,262) with many churches, and sufficiently labor-minded to support a weekly, Kenosha Labor, edited by Socialist Paul Porter. Last December its American...
Legion post petitioned the Board of Education to start a junior R. O. T. C. unit in Kenosha High School. A group of ministers quickly objected. Soon mass meetings and fierce arguments were in full swing. Advocates of R. O. T. C. claimed it developed character and physical fitness, its opponents that it bred militarism. The Legion and some civic & fraternal organizations lined up behind R. O. T. C., labor unions and churches lined up against it. The Board of Education lined up on the fence, finally asked the City Council to hold a city-wide referendum...
...first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks. When he left college he joined the Jackson...
Four years ago, hoping to spend less time at his old pine desk in his Kenosha office, more time in his Lakeside mansion, Motorman Nash retired to the chairmanship of his rich little company, naming his general manager as president and presumptive successor. Not long ago, however, Mr. Nash regretfully announced President Earl Hansen McCarty's resignation. At 72 thrifty Mr. Nash again had the job of finding an eventual chief executive. Last week he found his man - George Walter Mason, 45, president-chairman of Detroit's Kelvinator Corp...