Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner, fresh from Texas; Speaker Bankhead of the House; "Dear Alben" Barkley and the President's actual captain in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes; Republican Floor Leaders McNary (Senate) and Joe Martin (House); G. O. P.'s Alf Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...
...road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously backed his stand. To the American Legion (convening this week in Chicago) he said: "This so-called war is nothing but about 25 people and propaganda. Get them and you'll have the whole thing. They want our money...
...Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste and A. B. Svenska Handelsbanken's branch at Malmö, Sweden. He was said to have safe deposits in Zürich, Chicago ($450,000) and at Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. in San Francisco...
Muralists Millman and Siporin both studied at Chicago's Art Institute, are prime movers in Chicago's Artists' Union. Scholarly Mitch Siporin sings, plays the piano and mandolin. High-strung Eddie Millman relaxes best at the movies. Born on January 1, Millman annually gives a combination New Year's Eve-birthday party famed among Chicago artists, for the rest of the year stays close to the wagon...
Second game, Cleveland at Chicago, to be played tonight...