Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Rivers was gleeful. He granted the parole on condition that Barber Willis spend the next nine months in Massachusetts. Said he: "Governor Hurley seems to be in need of extra lottery operators. I am accommodating both Governor Hurley and this prisoner...
Quick to respond was none other than the ever zealous City of Chicago itself which, broke as usual, submitted a bill for not part but all of the $241,000, plus an extra $27,000 for good measure. This bill, Chicago's Corporation Counsel urbanely explained, was for 3,351,655,000 gal. of water from Lake Michigan which the city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid...
This week, day after Labor Day , Chicago's public schools were due to open one week ahead of time because the Board of Education, performing a Chicago miracle; discovered in its kitty an extra $900,000 which could pay salaries of its often unpaid teachers for the extra week. Five days before the scheduled opening, Chicago's schools made unexpected news when Board President James B. McCahey announced that they would remain "indefinitely closed" because of a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis (see p. 35). President McCahey's order brought much pleasure to the city...
...abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children with normal ears and in succeeding generations the defect will not recur." This was significant because such malformations as polydactyly (extra fingers) often occur on only one hand, sometimes skip a generation...
Having proved by bacteriologic tests that the Hansa's sick actually suffered from typhoid, health officers threatened to raise a loud scandal if she took on any passengers for Europe. Rather than face this, Captain Lehmann quietly loaded freight and mail, took on an extra doctor and nurses, sailed with his sick straight back to Germany...