Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center near Los Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor Arthur Langlie (who began ringing alarms on Beck 20 years ago), most successful Northwestern politicians are beholden to Dave Beck. In 1946 Washington's Democratic Governor Mon Wallgren appointed Beck to the board of regents of the University of Washington. And in 1950, Dave Beck, who had never completed high school, became president of the board...
...seniors of Northwestern University decided upon a new kind of senior-class gift for their alma mater: a plan to raise $4,000 to boost faculty salaries during the coming year. Wrote Class President Walter W. Doren in the Daily Northwestern: "The campuses of America are filled with benches, gates, clocks and similar senior-class gifts which have little or nothing to do with higher education's actual needs. Our class does not want to memorialize itself with a plaque. We wish instead to make a meaningful contribution to tomorrow...
COLLEGE GRABS in '57 will get record starting pay, averaging $400 a month in business and industry, double the figure of ten years ago. Biggest earners, survey by Northwestern University shows, will be engineers at $433 V. $385 for liberal-arts and most business graduates...
SLIDING-SCALE INSURANCE, with lower rates for big policies, will be tried by Northwestern Mutual Life, first major company to do so. First $5,000 of coverage sells for standard rate, but premium drops $1 per thousand per year on policies from $5,000 to $10,000, drops $1.25 on those over...
...quip, "is only one degree removed from a good reporter." Today, instead of turning away the diploma bearer, U.S. newspapers are bidding eagerly for journalism school graduates-and finding that there are not nearly enough to go around. From Tulane University's 30-student department to Northwestern's famed Medill School of Journalism (enrollment: 482), journalism deans report that they receive up to ten job offers for every graduate. Said a Journalism Quarterly survey of 76 schools last week: "For the second year in a row, not a single institution reported a surplus of graduates...