Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since 1920, the need for reapportionment has been simply one of common honesty. Being a simple matter of honesty there was naturally no crusade in favor of it. The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, raucous in defense of the Eighteenth Amendment, never mentioned it. President Coolidge never mentioned it. Candidate Smith never mentioned it?because as many Democrats as Republicans had opposed it. Probably not one voter in a thousand had the least idea that the question of reapportionment existed...
...whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter 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...
...taxicab past of John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro Y. M. C. A.), mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
...retirement of Mr. Hertz, last week, was complete. He resigned as president and chairman of the board of Chicago Yellow Cab Co.* He sold all his holdings to Charles A. McCullough, of Parmelee Transfer Co.. who becomes chairman of Chicago Yellow Cab Co. Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames Jr., 33, son of the famed Princeton footballer, himself a fair footballer, recently general manager of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, becomes Yellow Cab's president...
...proxy, for a bitter fight is to be settled. One group of proxies will be held by a representative of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The other will be held by Col. Robert Wright Stewart. The fight is over the re-election of Colonel Stewart as Chairman of the Board...