While in Philadelphia , Blazer became very active in the progressive Bull Moose Party and former President Theodore Roosevelt 's unsuccessful campaign for the 1912 republican nomination for President ( vs. the more conservative , incumbent Taft ) . Blazer ended up on the platform with President Roosevelt for his April 10 whistle-stop train tour stop in Philadelphia . Roosevelt overwhelmingly won Pennsylvania delegates with the campaign theme of improved treatment of employees by their corporate owners but he lost the nomination at the June , 1912 Republican National Convention in Chicago to William Howard Taft . Blazer left Curtis Publishing and Philadelphia in 1914 and returned to his magazine business in Illinois . On a Curtis Publishing scholarship , he enrolled at the University of Chicago earning an associate degree in Philosophy in 1915 . The scholarship was conditional on maintaining four hundred magazine subscriptions . Blazer further expanded his subscription business with the 1914 purchase from a Curtis distributor in Chicago a renewal subscriptions business with 960 customers and another renewal subscription business in 1916 with 1900 customers further expanding his magazine business in Chicago and into Milwaukee . While attending University of Chicago , Blazer was the student coordinator for the student sports program and business manager of the Cap & Gown yearbook staff . Under his direction they achieved record income
1912 Republican National Convention
1912 Republican National Convention
Paul G. Blazer