Word: corr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of federal relief and departmental reorganization promised speedy assistance through the national government even though it mean an invasion of a strictly local sphere of action. Mean-while the school children staged a demonstration designed to show the power of public opinion, an opinion which acting Mayor, Corr adamantly characterized as "Potently Communistic...
...hand. The City Council met to hear Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton's opinion on its power to elect a Mayor. He said it lacked such power. In the Morrison Hotel that afternoon Leader Nash gave Democratic councilmen his opinion: "I recommend for acting mayor Alderman Frank J. Corr of the 17th Ward. Now let's see if the new leadership will operate. Meeting's adjourned...
...hour later the Council met again. The loud protests of Democrat John S. Clark, insurgent opposition candidate, did him little good. Defeated on several test votes, he and his 16 supporters refused to vote in the final balloting. Nominee Corr was elected unanimously...
Chicago and Frank Joseph Corr were as surprised as were New York and John Patrick O'Brien last autumn when Tammany Boss Curry threw O'Brien into the mayoral gap left by Jimmy Walker. Said Acting Mayor Corr: "I didn't even know I was a candidate. . . . I have no feeling of elation." Outside his own ward, where he has been Democratic chairman for 25 years, few Chicagoans ever heard of him. Born in Brooklyn 56 years ago, he was taken to Chicago twelve years later, began practicing law there in 1899. He was Assistant Corporation Counsel...
Promising his party and city that he would not be a candidate in any special election, Acting Mayor Corr said he would adhere strictly to the Cermak policies of "economy, retrenchment and good government." Then he sat back to wait for the Legislature to confirm his dubious powers. With its employes still going unpaid, Chicago's most urgent need is for cash. Until the Legislature acts, Acting Mayor Corr's signature on $40,000,000 worth of tax anticipation warrants is worthless...