Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Solomon...
Congratulations and felicitations on the publicity given Izler Solomon in the Music section of TIME, March 27. I've been wondering how long it would be before wide-awake TIME tumbled to the fact that a first-rank American conductor was maturing in Chicago...
...Solomon's success is particularly gratifying to his Lansing, Mich. friends (where he was permanent conductor of the local symphony immediately before going to Chicago) because in spite of their efforts, the local public was not astute enough to realize his worth, withholding the support necessary to keep him from slipping through its fingers...
...would vote $250,000,000 for parity payments into the farm bill, in return for rural support of the WPA money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago's old Adolph Sabath kept back their forces, without which the farm Democrats were powerless against a strong Republican phalanx. The parity payments perished...
...result, summed up for Author Cooper by a procurer: "A guy doesn't have to break a girl in any more. . . . That's all old stuff now." Cooper's harrowing corroboration: Chicago's Cicero Danny has 500 girls under 18 on his waiting list. Cooper's conclusion: Localize the infection by restoring the old supervised red-light districts...