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Facing the factory's owner, ex-Alderman Titus Haffa, was an investigation by a coroner's jury. One key finding yet to be explained: during alterations the interior stairway and the front fire escape of the Haber building were removed, and no provision made for substitute exits. Haffa, who had begun his career as a newsboy a block from the building, was shocked and contrite. He promised to turn the site into a playground as a memorial to the dead...
Died. Dr. Charles E. Merriam, 78, longtime (1900-40) professor of political science at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral-hemorrhage; in Rockville, Md. As an educator looking for practical experience, he twice served as a Chicago alderman and ran a losing campaign in 1911 for mayor of Chicago on the Republican ticket (his campaign manager: Old Curmudgeon Harold Ickes...
Chicago's city council recently passed a new record budget of $376 million, including pay raises for political jobholders, increased auto allowances for favored ward heelers, and a whopping $4,800,000 for the city's Electricity Bureau. Young (34) Democratic Alderman Robert Merriam, who with 13 Republican colleagues had vainly fought for economies, decided to investigate the bureau, followed a seven-man electrical crew on its rounds around erratically lit Chicago. His report, published last week...
...mother, later studied law at night, and got into politics by running for the state assembly. ("You keep thinking you've met him before," said one reporter, "and you have-in every political machine in the U.S., and every hour on the hour in Washington.") He graduated to alderman, then borough president, has never been beaten in 17 elections-all confined to Brooklyn...
...Higher Power. In Warren, Ark., Auto Salesman Wayne Reaves hastily withdrew as a candidate for alderman after discovering that his opponent was none other than Lawrence Haynie, Reaves's boss...