Word: corr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelly it was. The sun had not set before Edward Joseph Kelly, 57, chief engineer of the Sanitary District and president of the South Park Board, was sworn in as Chicago's World's Fair Mayor. Acting Mayor Frank Corr was glad to retire to his Aldermanic seat...
...While sirens, pistols and cowbells sounded, State Street establishments dispensed to rows four deep. Louis Schneider, winner of the Indianapolis Memorial Day auto race in 1931, piloted a beer truck bound out of town. The Illinois Legislature having failed to agree on a beer dispensary bill, Acting Mayor Frank Corr announced that no city licenses would be levied, that Chicago would be on "beer probation...
Englewood got up a five-piece band, led a parade to Hyde Park High School to gain recruits. Unsuccessful, the marchers proceeded to the home of Acting Mayor Frank J. Corr, crying "Pay our teachers!'' and flourishing banners inscribed "Teachers want R. F. C. payroll loans at 3%. No Banks. . . . Sixty million dollars was paid to the unemployed. What did the teachers...
...Mayor Corr was not at home, so the strikers went on, cruising the city and hooting at "sissies" who remained in class...
...normal U. S. high-school pupils understand about R. F. C. loans, but that was just what the Chicago teachers were most interested in. There were conferences with Governor Henry Horner, with Acting Mayor Corr and with the Citizens' Committee on Public Expenditures. Teachers marched upon the First National Bank, seeking audience with Melvin A. Traylor. From Washington Illinois' Senator James Hamilton Lewis sent word that President Roosevelt was sympathetic, would see a delegation of teachers soon. Senator Lewis announced he had a new plan for getting Federal...