Lloyd Wendt

              1930's

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LLOYD WENDT
Brilliant American Newspaper Feature Writer, Political Reporter, Author and Investigator ….  Excellent Speaker

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LLOYD WENDT
One of Chicago's Best Feature Writers and Reporter-Investigators, Whose Articles in the Graphic Section of the Chicago Tribune and Syndicated Newspapers Are Widely Read

LLOYD WENDT entered the newspaper business when he was sixteen years old in his home town of Spencer, South Dakota (population 600).  When he was 18 he was columnist of the Sioux Falls (S. D.) Morning Press; at 19, too young to vote, he was publicity director of the Democratic party in his state; at 22 he was telegraph editor of The Daily Argus-Leader, largest newspaper in the Dakotas.

In his spare time, he went to Sioux Falls College and later attended Northwestern University, where he received the George C. Bastian and Sigma Delta Chi scholarship awards.  He was on the debate team, won several speech prizes, and was night editor of the Daily Northwestern.

After receiving his B.S. degree, for several years he had such jobs as sand hog, bell hop, bus boy, free lance writer, minister, college professor—in various parts of the country.  In 1932 he returned to Northwestern on a fellowship for his M. S. degree.  He then joined the staff of The Chicago Tribune.

For the Tribune Mr. Wendt traveled 30,000 miles as a political reporter, worked on the day city desk and the foreign desk.  Then he was assigned to write articles for the Graphic Magazine Section of the Chicago Sunday Tribune.

Hoodlums threatened to kill him for one series of articles on labor racketeers.  His articles on various subjects, particularly the spy menace and the Japanese threat, have been syndicated to leading newspapers from coast to coast.  At present (in addition to writing the plot for a comic strip) he is engaged with Herman Kogan, of The Tribune staff, in completing a biography of these famous aldermen of Chicago's First ward, Bathhouse John Coughlin and Hinky Dink Kenna—a study that has made him familiar with the lurid era when boodlers and Levee czars managed Chicago's political affairs and lustily looted the Loop.



LECTURE SUBJECTS

AXIS SPIES AGAINST AMERICA
What is the real story of Rudolph Hess' flight to Scotland?  How were the French tricked into revealing their military weaknesses to German army intelligence?  Axis spies in South America.  How can American citizens help to combat the spy menace?  etc.  How a 5th column attack on an American city might work, etc.

JAPAN'S PLAN TO CRUSH AMERICA
Japanese generals have announced they intend to sign the peace treaty in the White House in Washington.  Secret operations of the island empire, Japanese murder clubs, the story of Bushido, the Jap warrior code, Japanese atrocities, women in Japan, rites of emperor worship.  Can Japan invade U. S., etc.?

WHEN BOODLERS RULE
Fifty years ago Chicago was dominated by boodle politicians and business-men throughout the country, known as Gray Wolves.  The story of this era—Bathhouse John Coughlin, Hinky Dink Kenna, Johnny de Pow Powers, Dead Horse Brennan, Charles (The Titan) Yerkes, Hot Stove Jimmy Quinn and other famous politicians.  The period of legalized vice, syndicated crime, municipal corruption.  Why Chicago became infamous as the home of gangsters.  Why a little clique of boodlers was able to make and unmake governors and even presidents.




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