Word: loops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left Pennsylvania for Chicago where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, got a job as a newshawk on the Daily News. He quit the Daily News to return to the University for a law course, came out and set up a small practice in the Loop. His onetime partner was Donald Randall Richberg, longtime attorney for railroad labor and now counsel to General Hugh Johnson's Industrial Recovery Administration in Washington. "Mrs. Ickes' Husband." In 1911 Harold Ickes married Anna Wilmarth Thompson who had divorced Professor James Westfall Thompson. By her first marriage...
...soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...
...location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket...
...Midway, officially named.for the amusement centre of the 1893 Fair, the visitor will find under new names most of the devices which amused the visitors of 40 years ago. Here are the Lindy Loop, the Hey Dey, Bozo, a roller coaster, Midget Village, captive balloon, shooting galleries, an Oriental village with dancing girls...
...that would be a pity! This time, mounted police patrolled Loop streets, regular and special police stood in corridors. Teachers surged through the streets by thousands, singing and shouting. The biggest group, headed by John M. Fewkes, advanced upon Chicago Title & Trust Co. which they knew holds in escrow $10,000,000 for tax payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow...