Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
Legitimate doctors and frightened patients in Illinois have asked for an immediate investigation into all medical licenses and diplomas. Authorities pointed out that because the forged diplomas were from many a college besides Chicago and Northwestern, to weed out all quacks would be almost impossible. Nevertheless, Diver Blair was sent on another search, at a certain spot on the bottom of Chicago's drainage canal, where the forgers confessed having thrown their spurious engraving plates...
Except for his 800-acre farm in DuPage county, he has no hobbies. He never visits his clubs, has no social interests. Recently, however, he became a trustee of Northwestern University. Born in Canada, he was naturalized only a few years...
...month ago, Marshal Feng, war lord of Peiping (Peking) and the Northwestern Provinces, was on the verge of war with the Nationalist Government. Four hundred thousand troops were mobilized on either side. Haughty Marshal Feng sent scurrilous letters to President Chiang, and rallied his allies (TIME, June 3). Last week, before actual hostilities commenced, the "Christian General" suddenly capitulated, agreed to leave China...
Marion Boyd, 17, of Detroit, student at the Northwestern High School, bit her pencil and finally wrote: THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY?BEAUTIFY...