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...calm public fears. The Chicago Daily News found encouragement in the fact that if all the resources of all Chicago banks were placed in $20 gold pieces they would fill a 30-foot street for 3½ miles, that if they were placed in solid silver they would pave a road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood on the South side), Melvin Alvah Traylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In Chicago, Cont'd | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Foreign Student Committee of the Brooks House and is held every year. It is an opportunity for students from foreign countries to meet Americans, professors, and graduate and undergraduate students. It serves, also, to bring together those members of the University who are interested in international problems, and will pave the way for the supplementary meetings of the International Council, the discussion group organized by the Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. HOLDS RECEPTION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS TODAY | 10/1/1930 | See Source »

With a rustle and vibrant clearing of Her Majesty's throat the Speech-from-the-Throne began. It touched first, continued to touch on unemployment, economic depression. Keynote: "Strenuous efforts and wise policy, with God's help, must pave the way to better times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Juliana, Unemployed | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...such varied authors as Lenin, Walter Lippman, President Lowell, and John Stuart Mill. For a man in college to cover such a list means to know what some of the keenest minds of the world have thought about the relations between a state and its citizens, and thus to pave the way for intelligent opinions upon the problems that confront his own generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV 1 | 6/11/1930 | See Source »

...this process. 3) This administration turned the State Penitentiary from an institution losing a million dollars a year, to an institution making money. 4) That over the opposition of all the Ring newspapers and all the oldtime politicians, we voted a good roads program in this State to pave the highways and build a thousand miles graveled farmers' roads every year, and we are building them of the highest type. 5) That we took the Charity Hospitals of the State and reformed them so as to reduce the death rate from 30 to 40%, and increased the capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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