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- Elmo graduated from the University of Illinois in 1916. He was a campus leader at the University. While there he was a member of the track team and won the Conference Medal in 1916 for combined scholarship and athletic ability. He was a Jr. Phi Beta Kappa member of the Sr. honor society and a member of Delta Phi social fraternity which was at that time a local called Iris. After receiving his MA in history in 1917 at the U. of I., he spent 2 1/2 years as a Lt. in the Army in W. W. I.
He then did graduate work in Economics at Harvard. His entire teaching career, from 1923-1962 was spent on the faculty of Northwestern, with almost 10 years of leave for study and research in Europe and Asia - 1928 - 30; 1936 - 37; 1951, 1952, 1957 - 58; and 1963 - 64. From 1942 - 45 he was on full time leave on O. P. A. and the War Labor Board. He has written 3 books in the field of maritime and international labor economics, as well as many articles and reports in the same field. He is now retired and lives in Evanston.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt
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1894 - 1977 (83 years)