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...Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called Mayor Thompson "clown," "buffoon," "braying jackass...
Still other negotiations under way: $10,000,000 loan to the city of Bucharest; $8,000,000 Hungarian Mortgage Land Bank loan; 86,000,000 Silesian Landschraft Bank loan; $5,000,000 Deutsche Bank and Boden Bank loan...