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...United Air Lines President William Patterson has already mounted the stump. But Chicago's plans are already beyond speechmaking; surveys have been made of 72 possible airport sites in the area, twelve of them suitable for huge bases. The biggest: a $35,000,000 dream port on the lakefront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Tale of Three Cities | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Last week, in a long, apocalyptic editorial, Colonel McCormick virtually despaired of the U. S. As bitterest gesture of all the Tribune junked its eight-plank "Platform for Illinois and Chicago" (railroad electrification, a lakefront airport, tax cuts, etc.). Replacing it was a single apoplectic plank: Save Our Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McCormick Hauls Down the Flag | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...American Bankers Association of bad temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that he was talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Chicago newspapers have a hardheaded, warm-hearted habit of giving free entertainment to Chicago's populace. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune held its annual Chicagoland Music Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own-a "Swing Jam Session" of five "name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 200,000 Jitterbugs | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...reason: Slingin' Sammy Baugh. Part of the 80,000 expected in the lakefront stadium watched the sharp-shooting Texan baffle the Chicago Bears in the National League playoff last winter and they're asking themselves, "how can more college boys stops...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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