Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Held a state funeral for Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois; heard that, to fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 2. Chicago 4, St. Louis...
...sculpture has no more indefatigable plugger than capable, stately Malvina Hoffman. When she did her famous bronzes of 101 racial types for Chicago's Field Museum, she performed a sculptural-scientific job of Leonardian scope, proved to countless U. S. citizens that sculpture could be scholarly. In the four years since then, 51-year-old Sculptor Hoffman has done less notable modeling, more writing. In her latest book* she offers students and laymen a drilled-eye view of a tough craft...
...computing the approximate Federal income tax of their boss: $306,000 ("There was also a State income tax"). Next to Hearst were President Mortimer Berkowitz of Hearst's American Weekly ($265,225), Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ($255,000). Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune got $50,000, same sum his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson drew from New York's tabloid Daily News. Others: Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News, $75,000; Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing...
...battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State House in Frankfort eight...