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...Chicago one afternoon last week some 5,000 schoolchildren, egged on by their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The effigy did not look much like anyone, but it had a corncob pipe in its mouth and it was supposed to be Charles Gates Dawes...
Chicago's Press ignored the incident, and four days later a lot of the same schoolchildren were in another throng that trooped to the lakefront for a party at which Banker Dawes's sister-in-law officiated. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes broke a bottle of milk over the Magic Mountain on the Enchanted Island for children, formally opening this section of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...engineer of the commission which laid out the Great Lakes-Mississippi waterway. Mayor until April 1935. he will not give up his presidency of the South Park Board which he has held since 1924. During his regime was built the great outer highway system along Chicago's south lakefront and Soldier Field...
...contest winners from 35 midwest cities roared the Hallelujah Chorus, 1,100 musicians blared through such barber-shop favorites as "Home, Sweet Home," "Sweet Adeline," a squad of "Blacksmiths" banged 6-in. sparks from anvils in time to Il Trovatore's Anvil Chorus, cannons on the lakefront boomed for Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Proceeds of the festival went to charity...
...case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel. Nine other deaths were somehow...