Word: leiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger S. Kuhn, Council treasurer, who wrote the leiter for the group, pointed out that regulations ordinarily prohibit granting of extensions to individual undergraduates. He asked that Perry, if he could not postpone the due-date for all men, grant extension liberally in cases of hardship...
...Potter Palmer, a bearded, heavy-spending man who ran the biggest drygoods store in the Middle West, sold out to two of his partners-Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter. With the cash he decided to turn narrow, muddy State Street into Chicago's glittering main stem. He bought and rebuilt buildings right & left, and, as a final glory, erected the Palmer House. It shone for only 13 days, then burned to the ground, with 32 other Palmer properties, in the Chicago fire...