Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headed by John T. Dolan '39, the dance committee includes John F. Casoy, Jr. '38, Randall Richards '38, John Grindle '39, Robert Fulton '40, Chester G. Ormond '38, Thomas E. McCormick '40, Vincent Hurley '40, James R. Dowd '40, John J. Whoriskey...
Engaged. Guy Stillman, 19, son of Chicago's Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick and Manhattan Banker James Alexander Stillman; to Nancy Holbrook, 17, of Barrington, Ill. In 1920 Banker Stillman filed divorce papers against his wife, charging that Guy's father was an Indian guide, Fred Beauvais, but lost the suit...
Married. Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, 21, well-dressed daughter of Paul Caldwell Wilson and Mrs. Wilson (better known as Madam Secretary Frances Perkins); to David Meredith Hare, 21, Manhattan color photographer; in Manhattan. The groom's best man was Medill McCormick, son of Illinois' onetime Representative, Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and grandson of Mark Hanna. Among the bride's guests at the church were New York's Democratic Representative Caroline O'Day and Mrs. James Aloysius Farley...
...summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans, trying to get 100 of them to pledge $50 annually for the support of a magazine of modern verse. Charles Deering, Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles & Rufus Dawes came in; Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck stayed out. By June, 1912, she had more than 100 signatures on her five-year pledges, an income of more than $5,200 a year for her magazine...
...chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot was the organization of the World-Art group with backing ($500,000) by Fleischmann, Harold F. McCormick and other Midwest socialites. De Basil lost not only his principal working choreographer (Massine) to the new group, now named The New Ballet Russe, but long-legged Ballerinas Tamara Toumanova and Alexandra Danilova, and the aegis of crafty Concert Manager Sol Hurok as well...