Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tribune have been called the best ever written. But it was after he transferred to the World, as a columnist in 1921 that his career really began. His column, It Seems to Me, ran for 18 years, first in the World, then in Scripps-Howard's Telegram, later in the World-Telegram, when Publisher Howard merged the two papers in 1931. But in all of them it was informal, effortless, personal. A man of tremendous heart and unfailing kindness, Broun was led by his sympathies first into Socialism, then to the brink of Communism, though he never actually joined...
...wrote a sober obituary on the death of Socialist Eugene V. Debs in 1926, two bitter columns on Sacco & Vanzetti the year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
...Elkins, the other from her first husband, George D. Widener, who with her elder son went down with the Titanic in 1912. In memory of her son she gave the Widener Memorial Library to Harvard. At its dedication in 1915 she met Explorer Rice, himself a millionaire. Four months later they were married...
Died. Charles Rudolph Walgreen, 66, tightlipped, tight-minded founder of the U. S.'s second largest ($27,846,000) drugstore chain (508 stores in 37 States); in Chicago. In 1935, he removed his niece from the University of Chicago because he disapproved of the "Communistic theories" taught there, later gave the university $550,000 to establish the Walgreen Foundation for Study of American Institutions...
...fund with which to subsidize exports. He spent about $32,500,000, paying 1½?a Ib. to subsidize exports of 4,344,434 bales. To conserve the balance of this fund, the subsidy was cut in half, midnight, Dec. 5. A few days later, it was cut to 2/5?, again last week to 1/5?. Anxious to share in the Government subsidy before it was all gone, exporters rushed into the market and bid cotton up 1? to 10.55?, highest in two years...