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...every Chicagoan knows, Banker Traylor sprang from a strain of Kentucky mountaineers and matured in a two-fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After...
...developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political power through the railroad labor unions. Then, with gunmen at his command...
Though it was not the fashionable season, a wealthy Chicagoan last week repaired to a $65,000 home he had lately bought on fancy Palm Inland, just outside Miami, Fla. Though Miami usually welcomes wealthy Chicagoans, this time it was inhospitable. The newspapers printed high headlines announcing the visitor's return. A subpoena was issued for his presence in the county solicitor's office...
Elected. James Simpson, 54, president of Marshall Field & Co. since 1923, to be director of the New York Central R. R.; to fill directorate left by the late Chauncey M. Depew, who died two months ago (TIME, April 16). Only one other Chicagoan has sat on this board-the late James Berwick Forgan, president of the First National Bank of Chicago...
Meanwhile the Liberal Star expressed "amazement at the orgy of violence which marked Chicago's municipal elections," and the blatant Daily Mail gave the impression that every Chicagoan who voted did so in imminent peril of being bombed. Even factual Times cried emotionally that "in Chicago every man's hand seems to be raised against his fellow and the preponderating mass of law-abiding citizens is almost powerless to check the orgy of violence...