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...Commissioner of Public Works ("Secretary of State" in the Chicago cabinet) Mayor Cermak again turned to the "better element" that had supported his campaign and chose Col. Albert Arnold Sprague, 54. millionaire grocer (Sprague, Warner & Co.), Wartime infantry officer, potent crime crusader, civic leader. Commissioner Sprague had served in the same capacity under Mayor Dever, was thoroughly familiar with...
...Government in enforcing Prohibition." Charles Collins Teague, a member of the Farm Beard, agreed. Dramatic color was lent their view when many a newspaper, particularly in California, reported that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, No. i U. S. gangster, had issued a threat of death to any Chicago druggist or grocer who accepted a Fruit Industries agency. The Los Angeles Examiner said Capone was incognito in its city, presumably to discuss his new competition at its source. Chicago is the next market Fruit Industries contemplates entering...
Nebraska. The disclosure that his primary opponent, State Treasurer William Stebbins, had put a grocer's clerk named George W. Norris into the contest to confuse the voters, apparently clinched the re-election of Republican Senator George William Norris...
Rare is the neighborhood that has not at some time had its "boy editor." With a great earnestness and selfimportance, the young man canvasses for subscriptions to a four-page weekly, wheedles the corner grocer for an advertisement, makes himself generally a nuisance. But not every juvenile journalist is not to be taken seriously. For example: Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, 11, and his sister Marcia, 12, of Douglaston...
...notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same. In England they would know their place. They would certainly learn not to wear jodpurs when they go to the grocer...