Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign for the defense of intellectual freedom. For it is not simply "yapping minorities," as the editorial maintains, who are attacking the rights of students and teachers and labor organizations to speak out boldly on current issues. The Crimson insists on viewing the curtailment of academic freedom at Chicago, Ohie, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell, not to hit nearer home, as isolated instances, but one does not have to be gifted with second sight to see these isolated cases of the curtailment of academic freedom as part of a movement which did not begin and will not end at our colleges...
Siepmann's work will carry him throughout the country and will bring him into contact with the important radio executives and with the Universities such as Chicago which are already interested in radio education in the popular sense...
Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr., a shrewd, dynamic businessman, was the son of a Yankee-born Atlanta capitalist. In their junior year, they published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Joaquin Miller George Santayana. In 1894 they moved to Chicago. Their house organ was a little magazine called The Chap-Book dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced...
...Chicago, meanwhile, Stone set up a firm of his own which was as brilliant commercially as the old partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark. Year following came the sensational Story of Mary MacLane. Then Publisher Stone decided to cut corners, pay less attention to experimental writers, add cheap reprints, and he published a magazine called The House Beautiful. (The Chap-Book had folded in the Spanish-American War.) Four years later with "nothing of importance...
Fascism v. democracy is their favorite, though only a brand new reader of novels would find anything new on the subject. In the worst of them, Charles Francis Stocking's Out of the Dust (Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation...