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What happens to an alderman's salary? A hundred angry taxpayers' leagues, thinking of both the alderman and his salary as fat, have asked this question. Paul Howard Douglas, University of Chicago economics professor, often used to ask it. Last year popular, liberal-minded Paul Douglas decided to find out. He ran for alderman in Chicago's fifth ward, promised if elected to audit and publish his annual income. Last week Alderman Douglas kept his pledge, issued his findings...
...when Dan is picked off the streets, casts 37 votes at $2 apiece. This feat attracts the attention of the Big Boss (Akim Tamiroff), who puts McGinty's broad shoulders and hard fists to work shaking down protection money from recalcitrant clients. Before long McGinty is an alderman, shaking taller trees. When the Big Boss gets tired of the mayor and organizes a reform party to throw him out, he tells McGinty that he can have the job if he gets married. McGinty forms an expedient attachment to a widow (Muriel Angelus) with two children. But Mrs. McGinty...
...Garry went into politics at the age of 12, when he rang doorbells for his father, who was an alderman in Chicago's Eighth Ward. He also learned to lay brick (and still carries a union card), but for more than 30 years Chicago's brand...
...company lawyer had kicked back $111,000 in excess fees; another $42,000; a Kansas City equipment salesman had kicked back $70,000; insurance companies had refunded $80,000. This money then went into the campaign funds of candidates for every office in Union Electric's territory from alderman to Governor of Missouri. Laun, reported Shelton, kept his list of bribees under a carpet in his office. On information supplied by SEC, Al Laun went to Leavenworth three months ago, and Frank Boehm, formerly executive vice president, is now on trial for perjury in Federal court. Since...
...represent the meeting of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is known officially as the Meeting of the Waters, locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony. Last week a crowd of 2,000 saw the fountain unveiled at last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor Milles and a surrounding bevy of flower-toting ladies, everybody cheered. Conspicuously absent were Chairman Francis D. Healy and Tailor Hubert Hoef-linger, dissenting members...