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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill introduced by Chairman Black of the Education and Labor Committee for a census of unemployment, partial employment and occupations to cost about...
...years, four historical bas-reliefs have adorned the pylons of Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge. The Defense (of Fort Dearborn) and The Regeneration (the Chicago fire) were given the city at a cost of $60,000 by the William Ferguson Fund, and the late William Wrigley Jr. laid out $57,350 for The Pioneers and The Discoverers, the latter plaque representing the landing of Père Marquette and Explorer La Salle on the site of the present city. Though Michigan Avenue Bridge is one of the most heavily-traveled in the world, few Chicagoans knew until last week...
...packing company to raise $200 to have Marquette's robe altered. Last week Dr. Nesbit's plans became public when Commissioner of Public Works Oscar Edwin Hewitt approved the project on condition that a competent sculptor could be found to do a historically accurate job at no cost to the city. Fortunately, Pere Marquette's Franciscan habit can easily be chiseled into resemblance of a Jesuit mantle without even moving the plaque. Sculptor Eugene Romeo will reduce the Franciscan hat to a skullcap, take the fullness out of the robe, remove the monk's cowl, incise...
Only objector to the project was Vice President James S. Cox of Wrigley's, who barked: "They better watch what they do to that sculpture. It cost a lot of money, and they might ruin...
...become Actors Equity Association's president until ten years later, that night was Equity's coming of age, and Frank Gillmore was even then Equity's guiding hand. The strike spread to eight hinterland cities, closed 37 houses, kept 16 others from opening, cost producers & actors $3,000,000, lasted 30 days. It was Broadway's one big strike and still is the Theatre's one big Labor milestone. When it was all over Actors Equity emerged a victorious and potent body. Five years later Equity obtained a closed actors' shop, and no producer...