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Chicagoans going to work in the La Salle Street financial district gaped in astonishment at a huge electric sign announcing "Schlitz Buffet" clamped to the façade of the vacated quarters of Central Trust Co., part of Charles Gates Dawes's Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., now being liquidated. The main banking room, decorated with murals illustrating Chicago's history, was equipped with serving counters, tables, a long bar. The grilled iron door which once led to Banker Dawes's office now opens into a lounge...
...FRANKLINS-Bernard Faÿ- Little, Brown...
High School. When Chick was 6, his fa ther began teaching him to kick. Last year Chick gave an exhibition between halves of the California-St. Mary's game, kicked 108 consecutive goals from the 10 yd. line (20 yd. from the goal posts). His Brother Bud, 12, is less interested, less proficient. Between halves of last week's game at the Polo Grounds, in which the New York Giants swamped the Philadelphia Eagles 56-to-0, Father & Son Brickley started the schoolboy kicking carnival, saw a youngster named Charles Goodell of New York's Curtis High...
This paper and its successor, the Aurora, became chief begetters of what Author Faÿ calls "the second American Revolution . . . that broke Federalism and the English alliance." After the Revolutionary War the Federalists, with Washington as their dignified figurehead, grew cooler & cooler to France, wanted a treaty with England. They overrode Ambassador Genet's dangerous popularity with the U. S. crowd, forced his retirement. But when John Jay brought back from England his famed pusillanimous treaty, even Washington kept the text dark till he could be sure of getting it through Congress. Benny Bache spilled the beans...
...rare among unofficial ambassadors in being properly and adequately accredited. A brilliant scholar who has taken every degree open to a professor in France, he knows more about the U. S. and U. S. history than the vast majority of U. S. citizens. No myopic flatfoot, Professor Faÿ served nearly five years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits to the U.S., has lectured at Columbia University, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State et al. Still...