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...night parking of automobiles in and around dormitories will in the future be a costly procedure for students, it was announced yesterday by Captain M. J. Brennan of the Brattle Square Station. The attention of the local constabulary has been roused by an increase in the number of men practicing open air storage for their cars...
...Captain Brennan asserted that the penalty for the parking infraction was a $10 fine. The law requires that no automobile be parked in the dormitory sections at night for longer than an hour or at all without lights illuminated...
...will be difficult to replace Boss Brennan of Illinois. An Irishman, plump and nimble-witted, a poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
...Though Brennan worked in back rooms, his political deeds were not black...
Died. George E. Brennan, 63, Democratic boss of Illinois; of septic poisoning; in Chicago...