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...Chicago many a charge against past & present city officials arose from the finding of Gangster Jack Zuta's record books (TIME, Sept.1). Since the first of the year the city's finances have been in dire straits. Last week 7,210 city employes were payless, despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity...
Meanwhile the anthracite miners have been working at top speed. Every available bin is being used for storage. The operators want plenty of coal on hand in preparation for a long strike. The miners have been glad to get extra pay to put aside for the payless strike days...