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...Hinky Dink loved people. Bums, tarts, gangsters, panhandlers, the inhabitants of the flophouses of Chicago's ill-famed First Ward-they were what Hinky Dink meant by people. Also they meant votes...
...many a sentimental tear rolled down stubbled jowls into nickel beer last week in Chicago. The Hon. Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna announced he did not choose to run again for First Ward Alderman. Chicago historians hailed the passing of a lusty, gusty 50-year era; a time that began when Hinky Dink's great pal John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin was Alderman. They called him Hinky Dink, or The Hink, because he was so short...
Beautiful Corruption. On election days they voted as Hinky Dink wanted. In time he became a political power; inevitably he met and made a friend of Bathhouse John, then a rubber at the old Palmer House baths. The Bath was elected Alderman in 1892; five years later Hinky Dink followed him into the council as second Alderman. But a 1923 reorganization allowed only one Alderman per ward...
Besides regular meets, one day each week will be spent by the colleges in Greater Boston on the Charles Basin, where they will have Varsity and Freshman races to determine the spring champion. Last fall's championship was won by a Harvard dink sailor, after a hotly-contested sail-off with...
With Sumner Simmons the only letter man returning to the forward position, the attackers were classed by Martin as the Weakest branch of the squad. Coming up from last year's Freshman team, however, Joe Healey and Dink Donahue may become the nucleus of a potentially threatening front line...