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Wide was the wonder throughout the land last week as Chicago, the Second City, floundered deeper into its spectacular mire of public debt. Rarely before has a full-grown municipality made such a financial exhibition of itself. There was no money in the City Treasury, none in Cook County Treasury, none in the School Board Treasury. The 23 park boards were penniless, the largest, South Park, abandoning its preparations for the Centennial Fair until it could sell a bond issue. The credit of city and county agencies was practically exhausted...
...super-government of businessmen to rescue Chicago from its mire of municipal debt came a step closer last week with the selection of an advisory commission of 27 bankers, lawyers, merchants to serve as experts in this crisis. The movement toward such an organization of potent citizens has been taking shape for the last six months (TIME...
...same day that a New York publisher was on trial before a Boston jury for selling a copy of "An American Tragedy" to a policeman, the nation's "bad boys" gathered for a Ford Hall Forum banquet to sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost...
...professes to knew? Such questions of course will not prevent many Freshmen today from proving their reading knowledge of French who never could nor ever will be able to read French, readily, nor will they save many others from wasting a year on German A who need only one mire stiff French course to whip their more stiff French course to whip their oughly workable shape. But of the making of many books there...
...once. Mr. Bingham was always most closely allied to the track team. After the disastrous season of the team on the einders in 1920, Mr. Bingham was called back to his alma mater to coach the track team and he lifted the University so far out of the mire that during the 1921 season only half a point separated the Crimson team from California and the intercollegiate championship...