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...Chicago last week aldermen meditated on a resolution to purchase as a memorial the site where famed Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern that started the great fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Cow | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Three or four mayors or boards of aldermen have already forbidden the showing of Chaplin films in their municipalities because of the charges of immorality brought against him by his wife in her suit for divorce. If his wife proves her point we may not unreasonably expect such a procedure to be nation-wide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCRIMINATION | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...public accountings for the efficiency of his subordinates (by assembling representative student groups for quizzing by civic leaders); demanded 100% perfection in basic studies; refused to issue his picture to the press; made annual reports of which the good sense bordered upon the sensational; fought real estate grafts by aldermen; installed junior high schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Educating Chicago | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Inge. Owing to the illness of her father, the bride could not ride in his ceremonial coach, which must only be used when the Lord Mayor is passenger. She traveled, however, in an excellent black coach, embossed with the city's coat of arms. She was accompanied by aldermen, coachmen, constables and the City Remembrancer, who were dressed in wigs and full ancient panoply. Married. Robert Wales Emmons III, employe of J. P. Morgan & Co., son of famed yachtsman Robert Wales Emmons II, to Frances Stephenson Weld; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engaged | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...president of the board of aldermen raised his left hand until it was fourteen when his wife convinced him that it is better to choose a college early than to try to make sense out of Aldous Huxley so they married and raised children who raised hell ten feet toward heaven by gilding the front stairs of the devil's bathing apartment so that he slipped on the wet paint--and it is really not often that the devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/9/1926 | See Source »

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