Word: norton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago, which opens Oct. 1, announced that it would have as a student Mrs. Ruth Walgreen Dart, daughter of Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who last spring loudly withdrew his niece, Lucille Norton, from the University called it a hotbed of Communism, precipitated a fruitless legislative investigation (TIME, April...
Councillor Norton of the Municipal Council yesterday proposed that Harvard's economists be appointed to investigate the finances of Cambridge...
...Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party . . . through which Columbia University of New York...
...Robert Fletcher Rogers prize for the best papers presented before the Mathematical Club at Harvard during the academic year; as follows: first price of $35 to Ralph P. Boas, Jr. 1G, of Norton; second prize of $15 to Herbert E. Robbins, '35, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring U. of C. to heel by dismissing its Board of Regents...