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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...
Other banking news of the week: ¶ In Hartford, hotbed of rugged individualism, big Hartford-Connecticut Trust withdrew from FDIC because "the protection afforded our own depositors by the strong liquid position of this bank would not be strengthened by membership. . . ." Several other State-chartered Connecticut banks will shortly follow suit...
...when his brother Charles withdrew financial support from the magazine in 1928, Editor Lanier left. There followed a long, vague tinkering with Golden Book's editorial policy, a steady decline in its subscribers. The magazine changed editors four times, page size twice. Its editorial formula wavered to include radical political speeches, varying proportions of contemporary stories and, of late, heavily Rabelaisian fiction. Advertising management was equally unsteady, equally botched. By 1935 these faults had cut the subscriptions...
...days later Honest Wang leaped from bed, withdrew his resignation, traveled 500 miles from Tsingtao to Nanking. There Premier Wang and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agreed to stick together a while longer at their exciting game of running a pro-Japanese Chinese Government...
RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...