Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venzke pounded into the chilly wind at Palmer Stadium last week only Lash stuck close to his heels. At the half, with Venzke well in the van, Lash was leading Beccali by 15 yards, with Cunningham and San Romani in the rear, refusing to be rushed. Lash was certain to be winded by the terrific pace. When Venzke dropped out, Lash faltered and Cunningham and San Romani swept into the final lap to pass him. Twenty yards from the finish, San Romani spurted ahead of Cunningham and Lash uncorked his galloping sprint. As far as the spectators could see, they...
Appointed director of a new State Insurance Department was 54-year-old Ernest Palmer, for ten years special counsel to the Chicago Board of Underwriters. Dry-witted, poker-faced Mr. Palmer has been assistant attorney for the U. S. Department of the Interior in 1912, assistant general counsel to the National Board of Fire Underwriters from 1913 to 1923. No sooner had he taken office than he asserted his long-held opinion that Illinois insurance laws were a hodgepodge mostly written in 1869 and the only thing to do with them was to clean them all off the statute books...
Last week Director Palmer lay ill at St. John's Hospital in Springfield. Plan was to have Governor Horner honor his victory by signing the bill at his bedside...
Awards totalling $10,800 were announced over the weekend at the Law School, Medical School, and School of Education for 1937-38. Law School Faculty Scholarship will go to Paul W. Lukenheimer, of Philadelphia, while four Chicagoans, Charles A. Bane, Raoul Berger, Maxwell Cohen, and Bernard Meltzer and B. Palmer King, of Lincoln, Nobraska, will receive Research Fellowships...
...years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond as a result of a study Tew made in England of the Palmer cord tire process. In 1912 Goodrich and Diamond merged and Jim Tew began the climb that landed him in the presidency...