Word: mires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world is only beginning to realize what we who love art have known all along, that Chicago is the city of destiny, that although our feet may be in the mire, our souls are peering into the beyond."-Sculptor Lorado Taft, addressing the Women's Chicago Beautiful Association...
Meanwhile the Wickersham Commission's recommendations were well mired in Congress. Predictions are freely heard that they will remain in the mire throughout this session. A House Judiciary sub-committee last week openly despaired of agreement on the proposal for juryless liquor trials. Legislation to transfer Pro hibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice is near the bottom of the Senate's calendar where it is likely to remain...
...complete agreement with the proposition that the amount of rest time allowed these workers put them essentially on the required hourly rate. A formal letter: of acknowledgement was all that was needed to set the matter at rest for all time. After just having emerged from the mire of publicity which came as a result of the neglect to do this, one can only admire Mr. Shattuck's restraint in his statement, "the College apparently omitted to furnish the formal evidence...
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...