Word: devers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roosevelt on the ticket. People asked, "Who is this man Brennan who deals with mighty names?" They couldn't find his history in Who's Who (it's not there yet). Good Chicagoans pointed with pride to him when he carried a Democrat, William E. Dever, into the City Hall in 1922 over the wreckage of the grimy William Hale Thompson machine. Mayor Dever's record is "Boss" Brennan's most flourishing gesture. But he insists that politics is merely his avocation, along with shooting canvasbacks and sitting in on jackpots: "For me, politics...
Year in, year out, for many a year, pleased citizens have contemplated lawyers' proposals for judicial reform. Other citizens have been vexed that the field for reform never lessened. Last week a familiar twa,ng was sounded in the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Mayor Dever of Chicago decried prohibition. Onetime Bar-President Chester I. Long decried present methods of judicial procedure. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul decried paroles. Expert witnesses, insanity defense, Senator Thomas J. Walsh (who is holding up in the Senate a bill for simplification of procedure)-all were decried seriatim; Finally, the Association...
...TIME, June 21) bearing Cardinal Banzano, Cardinal Hayes and seven foreign cardinals had reached Chicago. (Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia traveled alone, joined them the next day. Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, who took the boat trip from Buffalo, arrived Sunday afternoon.) Friday night Governor Small of Illinois, Mayor Dever of Chicago and Secretary of Labor Davis whom President Coolidge has sent welcomed all the prelates at a great gathering in the Coliseum...
...Mayor Dever of Chicago was there to express his city's appreciation. President Walter Dill Scott acknowledged gifts in behalf of the faculties and students...
Last week Mayor Dever of Chicago addressed the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs...