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With 12,000 jobs at his disposal Mayor Cermak began the distribution of patronage by making his personal physician, Dr. Hugh O. Jones, Acting Health Commissioner. Next he appointed Francis Xavier Busch to be Corporation Counsel, a position Mr. Busch held under Democratic Mayor Dever. Counsel Busch, considered one of the best trial lawyers in Chicago, was last year president of Chicago's Bar Association...
...Professor Charles Edward Merriam of the Politics department ran for mayor in 1911. He was called "unofficial premier of Chicago" during the mayoralty (1923?27) of his good friend William Emmett Dever...
Died. William Emmett Dever, 67, of Chicago, onetime (1923-27) Chicago Mayor; in Chicago; of cancer. Though an anti-prohibitionist, he closed 7,000 Chicago speakeasies during his incumbency. He was defeated for re-election in 1927 by William Hale Thompson...
...Brennan of Illinois. An Irishman, plump and nimble-witted, a poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
...politician than the Better Element. It lifts politics right out of Politics. But then, successful, the Better Element forgets. Last week, Seattle reached the turning point of the same sort of Better Element cycle by which New York got a Hylan after a Mitchell, Chicago a Thompson after a Dever, and by which Detroit will inevitably get a question mark after its Lindberghian granduncle, Mayor John C. Lodge...