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THE LIFE OF PAUL DOUGLAS IS FILLED WITH EPISODES SHOWING A DEDI-
CATION TO DUTY FOR HIS STATE AND NATION. BRIEGLY, HERE IS HIS LIFE'S STORY:

...HE SPENT HIS BOYHOOD YEARS
ON A FARM IN NORTHERN MAINE
WHERE CONDITIONS WERE ALMOST
AS PRIMITVE AS IN FRONTIER
DAYS.

...AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, HE WENT
TO BOWDOIN COLLEGE WHERE HE
WORKED HIS WAY BY WAITING ON
TABLES AND MIXING CONCRETE.

...AT BOWDOIN, HE FOUND ENOUGH
TIME TO PLAY ON THE VARSITY
FOOTBALL TEAM.

...IN 1913 HE GRADUATED AND WAS
AWARDED A PHI BETA KAPPA KEY FOR
SCHOLASTIC HONORS. IN 1915 HE RE-
CEIVED A MASTERS DEGREE FROM CO-
LUMBIA UNIVERSITY!

SOON AFTER THAT, DOUGLAS BEGAN A
GREAT COLLEGE TEACHING CAREER
WHICH CONTINUED UNTIL HE TOOK
LEAVE FOR MILITARY SERVICE. HIS
FIRST POSITION WAS TEACHING ECO-
NOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLI-
NOIS!

IN 1923 HE RECEIVED A DOC-
TOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
TWO YEARS LATER HE BE-
CAME FULL PROFESSOR AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.
THAT YEAR HIS FIRST OF
MANY ECONOMICS BOOKS WAS
PUBLISHED...

SHORTLY,