Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this business group would presumably have access to the Mayor's office. These businessmen would receive no salary from the city; their services would be donated by their companies as an act of public service...
...Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity at City Hall, and Mr. Patterson is busy with the weekly Liberty and New York Daily News and with extended airplane cruises (TIME, Jan. 14). It was recalled, last week, that the maternal grandfather of these men, Joseph Medill. was elected Mayor in 1871, running, after...
...Follette organization drew up a petition accusing Governor Kohler of having spent $104,000 on his campaign. As the Wisconsin law puts $4,000 as a maximum campaign expenditure, the petitioners sought to disqualify the Governor from office as a violator of the states's corrupt practices act. Among signers of the petition was Philip La Follette, brother of the present, son of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette. Action on the petition is in the hands of Attorney General John W. Reynolds, who has announced that presently, in the course of his duties, he will proceed with...
...army" which became the most effective British recruiting slogan of the entire War; 3) That the sinking of the Lusitania was justified by the fact that she carried arms; 4) That German submarine commanders did not in any instance aggravate their torpedoing of merchant ships by an "atrocity" or act of cruelty; and 5) That the portion of the ... Treaty of Versailles which fixes sole War guilt upon Germany is simply tosh...
...Hertz's final act was to give 7,000 shares of Yellow Cab stock to 60 employes who had been with him since the start, and to sell them 7,000 additional shares on an easy deferred payment plan...