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...other city in the land. Its Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky. Above its enormous immigrant foundation is a socialite crust that knows wealth, culture, good living. It has opera, music, art, museums to offset its physical crudities. It is strong, lusty, loud and ambitious. Many a Chicagoan confidently predicts that his city will soon surpass New York in size and importance, become "The Paris of the West." Yet in the matter of mayors, Chicago has not kept pace with its other manifestations of greatness. Irish son of an Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days...
...Sanitary District scandal began to fade most people were ready to forgive and forget whatever part friendly, genial Ed Kelly might have had in it. But since then things have changed. The U.S. had jailed Gangster Al Capone for eleven years for dodging his income tax. Many a good Chicagoan agreed with President Roosevelt in principle that he had a right to know how the Mayor became so rich while in public service. Ed Kelly was beginning last week to hear one of the most unpleasant sounds in public life, boos among the cheers at his public appearances...
...Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn't hear her." At a party given by Irving Netcher, rich Chicagoan, and Roszika Dolly Netcher at Juan-les-Pins, France, a guest told Lord & Lady Milford Haven, cousins of Britain's George V, that champagne is good for dance-tired feet. She ordered some to try it. After the party Host Netcher was billed $100 for "champagne for feet," angrily...
...romantic notions about our lineage. This writer seems surprisingly ignorant (for a young man of his type) of the numerous connections between Chicago families and the best of his own local deities. Admitting the magnificent abnegation (not, of course, in the material sense) of these Bostonians who have married Chicagoans, we think, nevertheless, that he should be informed. The McCormicks have had their reaper for a hundred years. Certain families extraordinarily well considered here-abouts have enjoyed the advantages of wool and shoe leather for a shorter time. Also, as any Chicagoan could have told this gentleman, the "Tribune...
...most recent plan for snagging the world out of the economic morass is the product of the mind of Chicagoan Solomon Levinson, who is reputed to have suggested the term and the idea of a moratorium to President Hoover. The Levinson plan seeks to counteract the French theory of the unity of war debts and reparations by establishing a relationship between war debt reparations and disarmament. It postulates a four year armament holiday...