Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They sent him to the Union College of Law (later part of Northwestern University) in Chicago and he led his class. The Illinois Superior Court engaged him as deputy clerk. He was chief clerk within seven months but soon accepted space and a smaller salary in his uncle's office to practice privately. In boisterous young communities the demand for good lawyers is second only to the demand for doctors and, perhaps, masons and carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest...
Last week Dr. Henry C. Taylor of the Institute of Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities of Northwestern University, published the results of a year's investigation on farm incomes and farm prosperity. According to Dr. Taylor, farmers in 1924 received 10.6% of the national income; 10.2% in 1925 and 9.7% in 1926. There were, he said, 444 farm bankruptcies for every working day of 1926; agricultural population shrank 2,000,000 between 1920 and 1925, though the U. S. population increased 8,500,000 in the same period; 31,000,000 acres of land went out of agricultural...
...five States." (The italics are TIME'S.) Denominational colleges, other than Latter Day Saints and Roman Catholic, in Utah and the five contiguous states are-Methodist: Gooding (Gooding, Idaho), University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology (Denver) ; Presbyterian: Idaho (Caldwell, Idaho), Westminster (Salt Lake City) ; Nazarene: Northwestern Nazarene (Nampa, Idaho) ; Congregational: Colorado (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Pillar of Fire: 'Westminster (Denver...
...London & Northwestern R. R., King's Cross to York...
...letter maintained that unless Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, is nominated, western and mid-western states will go Democratic in 1928. Mr. Lowden is a graduate of Iowa State University and of the Union College of Law, Chicago; holds honorary degrees from Knox College, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado...