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...only trouble with asking an international congress of businessmen to act on such a syllogism is that businessmen are accustomed to think of Disarmament as political, as no business of theirs, as the business of statesmen. Wailed Chicagoan Strawn, who in other respects cooperated closely with the President last week: "The minute the International Chamber of Commerce touches politics we're through...
...caused a ruction-Representative Oscar De Priest, Chicago Negro, shook hands with the President, retired with Mrs. De Priest to the East Room, leaving to the other guests the option of speaking to or ignoring them. Mrs. De Priest was gratified when Secretary Lament's wife, a fellow Chicagoan, stopped to chat. Speaker Longworth came over, slapped Mr. De Priest on the back, shook his hand...
Alicia Patterson, aviating daughter of aviating Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News, Liberty), left Sydney, Australia, accompanied by a fellow Chicagoan, Elizabeth Chase, to fly across the interior of that continent. Their destination: Darwin, North Australia, 1,900 mi. northwest of Sydney. En route they planned to stop at an oasis, hunt kangaroo...
...Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired enthusiasm for polo, Publisher Quigley was impelled to back Editor Peter Vischer in starting Polo magazine, which he subsequently sold to Harper & Bros. (TIME, May 19). Also he publishes the smart fortnightly Chicagoan, which not long ago "turned the corner...
...many a Chicagoan the opera season does not start until Mary Garden returns. This year she is particularly welcome, for Chicago's opera affairs are not in a happy state. Sopranos Rosa Raisa, Claudia Muzio, Lotte Lehmann, Frida Leider have been giving capable performances. But despite expectations the pretentious new house has not proved popular. Beauty is widely conceded to the building. On the northwest edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed...