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...Luckett, split up the same year. Edith felt she had to go on the road to earn a living, so the toddler was deposited just outside Washington, in Bethesda, Md., to live with her Aunt Virginia's family. In 1929, Edith was married for the second time, to a Chicagoan named Loyal Davis, and reclaimed her seven-year-old child...
...least temporarily assured, customers started to return their money. "Some were a bit sheepish that they were stampeded by a rumor," one bank executive noted. "We don't blame them, but they damn near did us in." Other depositors, however, seemed determined to stay away. Said one wealthy Chicagoan, who shifted the more than $1 million in his children's trust fund to First Chicago: "The worst four-letter word in banking is risk, and Continental took too many of them...
...very impressed," said Adam J. Augustynski '86, vice president of the Democratic Club and a Chicagoan, adding, "He seemed very sincere and approachable. The mayor will surely be a major figure in the Democratic Party for some time...
Some questions focused on perceived gaffes by fellow Chicagoan Jackson. As the issues became more specific, the Black mayor responded, "The problems of the Rev. Jackson are his problems, and he will have to deal with them himself...
...final issue of the Daily News offered a simple headline: "So Long, Chicago." The prospect of another farewell seems far more depressing than the prospect of an average Chicagoan winging it with Wingo...