Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitor upon leaving the White House looked searchingly down the road for the bandwagon. Said New York's playwriting Representative Sirovich: "He did not say that he would not be a candidate but from my talks with his most intimate advisers, I am convinced . . . renomination . . . re-election." Chicago's Mayor Kelly also double-negatived: ". . . did not say he would not. . . ." Twenty-four hours before Iowa's ex-Governor Kraschel left the White House avowing that his State's people "would never be satisfied with a Presidential candidate except Mr. Roosevelt or someone in harmony with...
Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
...Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly last week offered his three-story brick house to Cardinal Mundelein for use of the Church...
...Chicago John Barrymore, now starring in My Dear Children after 14 years' absence from the stage, addressed 300 students of journalism, was asked by one: "What made you come back to the theatre?" Said he: "I had a vision of my grandmother* and she told me: 'Go back to the boards where you belong, you bastard...
Inside Story is a Chicago-made Tuesday nighter over NBC-Blue which dramatizes true-life hair raisers. Last week one scheduled tale-teller was ex-Convicf Pat Reed, a counterfeiter who finished his five-year stretch in Alcatraz last October. Pat Reed was to say: 1) that Convicts Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole had made a clean getaway from Alcatraz in 1937, had not drowned, as the G-men reported; and 2) that a mass escape is now being planned, involving the seizure of a strategic control tower...