Arthur Goldberg Supreme Court First Session Portrait and Path
Arthur Goldberg sat on the U S Supreme Court bench for the first time on October 1 1962 at age 54 He was chosen by President Kennedy after Felix Frankfurter’s resignation He later became Ambassador to the United Nations and had served as Secretary of Labor in Kennedy’s cabinet Born to a Russian immigrant potato peddler in Maxwell Street Chicago Goldberg’s early life showed self reliance from dawn chores to market work shaping a rise from a Maxwell Street childhood to a legal luminary
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Arthur Goldberg
U.S. Supreme Court
Kennedy
Felix Frankfurter
Goldberg
Johnson
United Nations
Supreme Court
Justice Goldberg
Chicago
Northwestern University Law School
Cubs Park
Maxwell Street
Arthur Hold
Halsted Street
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Yorker
Kennedys
Bobby Kennedy
Ira Berkow
Doubleday
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Maxwell Street labor and leadership shaping Goldberg's path
Ira Berkow describes how a young Goldberg, delivering, shelving, and protesting work rules, learns unity and bargaining amid Chicago’s Maxwell Street. He credits Roosevelt’s era and early library rowdies as formative, later becoming a labor lawyer and negotiator known as a “first class operator” for pay and benefits.
Snowbound Crystal Lake bus saved by snowmobile crew
A Crystal Lake school bus carrying frightened pupils was stranded for 90 minutes in a blizzard. Snowmobile enthusiasts and CB radio fans guided rescuers to the bus on the Algonquin Huntley road. rescuers marched the children to a nearby farmhouse. The CB operator Marge O'Brien, nine months pregnant, ran the station while snowed in on Illinois 47.
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Crystal Lake, Ill
UPI
Citizens Band
Crystal Lake District
Huntley
Huntley Farmside
Algonquin-Huntley Blacktop
Marge O'Brien
Maggie O
Quinn O’brien
University of Illinois professor commits suicide in Hyde Park
Hans W. Mattick 57 a University of Illinois at Chicago Circle professor of criminal justice and penal reform shot himself in the head at his Hyde Park home. A former Chicago professor and warden, he directed the Center for Research in Criminal Justice and authored books on reform. He had worked at Cook County jail and Stateville Penitentiary and chaired the Illinois Board of Corrections advisory group. He is survived by his wife and mother. funeral plans were pending.
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UPI
Hans W. Mattick
University of Illinois At Chicago Circle
Mattick
June
Hyde Park
UICC
Center For Research In Criminal Justice
University of Chicago
Cook County
Citizens Advisory Board
Illinois Board of Corrections
NIU president Richard Nelson to resign after conviction
NIU President Richard Nelson, convicted of leaving the scene after a May 1977 hit and run and driving without a license, will resign once the Regents accept the action. Board chair David Murray said the next meeting on February 16 in Springfield will likely handle the measure. Interim president likely William Mowat.
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Northern Illinois University
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Nelson
Illinois
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Regents
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DeKalb
NIU
Kane County
Mary Michalowski
William Mowat
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