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Four Chicago aldermen were in Hot Springs, Ark. last week not for the baths but to select a mayor for their city. The Illinois Legislature had refused to call a special election to fill the vacancy left by assassinated Anton Joseph Cermak. Gruff old Boss Patrick Nash, who succeeded Cermak on the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Governor Henry Homer had then nudged a bill through the Legislature permitting the City Council. Democratic 37 to 13, to choose Chicago's chief executive...
Next day, changing tactics, all 37 Democratic aldermen caucused at the Morrison Hotel. Just as Boss Nash was about to join the group, reporters asked him: "What is the choice for Mayor...
...Louis Democracy's victory, an echo from last November, was far from complete. Republican Louis Nolte was re-elected city comptroller for the fifth time. Republicans retained a majority on the board of aldermen...
...John Norris ("Jolly John") Holtsapple, who is first seen rising from his bed of alcoholic pain to go down the Bay and welcome Waldo, champion wrestling bear. Jolly John's party has the city in its bag but only a slim margin of control on the Board of Aldermen, whose president, Harrie Satchells, is after the mayoralty. The campaign is a humdinger, nip & tuck all the way. When Satchells at one meeting produces an inflated rubber cartoon of Holtsapple and lets the air out as he asks it embarrassing questions, he is one up. Jolly John (aping Big Bill...
...world recovery, President-elect Fraser faces a battling, buffeting year, will need all the stamina packed into his tough, square-shouldered frame. Typical of direct, common-sense Fraser methods was the Bank's settlement last week of the issue of "double taxation" with the City of Basle. Radical aldermen have demanded that the city pry into the private income of each employe of the Bank (already taxed in his home country) and tax it again in Basle. The Bank retorted by offering the city a lump sum payment of 50,000 Swiss francs ($9,647) in settlement...