Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northwestern University (Chicago...
...Linguistic Atlas was planned in 1925 by Austrian-born Dr. Hans Kurath, 41, onetime German teacher at Texas. Northwestern and Ohio State Universities. The American Council of Learned Societies began financing it in 1931; Yale University was its first home but Brown University offered more spacious quarters. Dr. Kurath is now chairman of Brown's Germanic languages department. The Linguistic Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet...
Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married...
...Hearing that Chicago kidnappers had marked him, he paid Chicago Gang Leader Alphonse Capone to tell them, "Lay off Jake Factor-or else. . . ." Last week, with Capone in jail, four men jumped out of a car on a Chicago street and grabbed Factor's anemic Son Jerome, 19, Northwestern University Junior. They wrote Factor, who is still at large, to get ready $50,000 in small bills or receive Jerome "in parts." Said he: "I'll pay any reasonable...
...held in London in June. He graduated from Brown University in 1912, and obtained his master's degree at Harvard in 1916, and his doctor's degree in 1919. He served as assistant professor of Economics at Princeton University in 1919-20, and associate professor of Banking at Northwestern University the following year. A member of the Department of Economics at Harvard since 1921, he served as professor of Economics from 1929 to the present time. It had been rumored that Professor Williams would accept a position with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York next year...