Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northwestern University Evanston...
...Billings Lecture was established to honor Chicago's late great Dr. Frank Billings (1854-1932) who made the medical departments of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago largely what they are today; who, with Dr. George Henry Simmons, editor and general manager-emeritus of the A. M. A., made the A. M. A. a great, potent organization; who, most of all, promulgated the doctrine of focal infection. More than any other physician, he traced human ailments to their remote and often obscure causes. definitely establishing that infected tonsils may cause blood poisoning, that gonorrhea may produce rheumatism, that...
...lecturer yet announced. Others include: Penfield Roberts, associate professor of History and English at M.I.T., who will give a course on the "Western World since 1914"; George S. McManus of the Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Dr. John W. Spargo, associate professor of English at Northwestern University. Stuart Chase and Sarah Wambaugh are slated to speak at a series of lectures...
With the executive genius for which RKO wanted to pay him $30,000 a year if he would leave the Service, General MacArthur grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over...
...century were Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), and Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the lamented New York World. Both men left great wealth with which schools of journalism were established in their names: the Medill School at Northwestern University in Chicago; the Pulitzer School at Columbia in Manhattan. The Pulitzer School made news last fortnight by announcing that its course will be shortened next autumn from two years to one, that only graduate students will be admitted...