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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...
Ever since he lifted the Chicago Opera and its million-a-year deficit from the grateful shoulders of Harold Fowler McCormick, Mr. Insull has made it his favorite plaything. And most things that Samuel Insull plays with are sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting...
Looking at their new opera curtain before it rises for the first time Monday night, Chicagoans may be reminded of another design, just as elaborate and colorful but more serious and a million times as big. To sketch this second design adequately requires a good-sized map of the U. S. The sketch can begin almost anywhere-on the coast of Maine, in Florida, or at the bottom tip of Texas. There is an irregular quadrilateral of it in North Carolina. A vast, nearly solid mass of it spreads east, west and south from Chicago. There are patches...
Campaigning. "I have probably heard The Sidewalks of New York one million times, all over the Atlantic seaboard, through the South, the Middle West and in Butte, Montana. ... I spoke at Oklahoma City on religious tolerance. Listeners in on the radio were particularly disturbed because of the noises in the hall which they believed were disorder. The fact is that a large part of the noise was created by an individual about halfway down the hall who continuously shouted: 'Pour it on 'em, Al, pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat...
Senator-at-large. "A man who receives 15 million votes but not enough to be elected automatically retires to private life and leaves the 15 million unrepresented except in so far as their senators and their congressmen are concerned. As a remedy, I suggest that we can amend our constitution to provide that the candidate for the presidency who receives the second highest number of votes should be entitled to a seat in the United States Senate as a senator-at-large during the term of his successful opponent. ... He would naturally become the leader of the minority party...