Word: urbana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impressed with Urbana's action, the Mayors of Aurora and Mendota, Ill. and Monte Vista, Col. followed suit...
...last week the First National Bank of Urbana, Ill. failed. Panic spread. Mayor Reginal Carl Harmon sat up most of the night with the city councilman and economic professors from nearby University of Illinois. At dawn, he issued an edict suspending all business in the town for five days excepting only food, drug stores, public utilities, newspapers. And the following night he said...
...gangster, Thomas Arkle Clark held until last week a job he invented and made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished...
...burly British Novelist John Boynton (Angel Pavement) Priestley, landing in Manhattan last week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...
...high-school principals of Illinois-assembled last week at Urbana, President Hutchins added obiter dicta: "The whole business is an experiment. Perhaps we have not the brains to get from it all we should . . . [but] it will compel us to think what we are doing...