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Brazilian hearts beat faster last week at the news that Private Oscar Corrêa dos Santos had been awarded 17 years' back pay. For Oscar Corrêa dos Santos, as every patriotic Brazilian knows, is one of two remaining survivors of the heroic Dezoito do Forte (Eighteen of the Fort...
...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...
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...