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...Republican William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson after three blustering terms in city hall, voted in Democrat Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak. The Cermak majority was 200,000. In line with Press polls which plainly foreshadowed the defeat of "Thompsonism," the second city of the land had chosen a onetime pushcart peddler, Bohemian-born, to preside at its World's Fair in 1933. His biggest promise: "Restoration of Chicago's lost reputation...
...nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled and benevolent, he kept repeating: "Chicago needs a business man for Mayor. . . . Take the circus from City Hall. . . . Chase away the grafters. . . . Bring honesty back into the Government. . . . Cut out its graft. . . . Stop...
...Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. ¶ In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon...
Saad did better than well. Disguised as a peddler, cunningly he insinuated himself into the house of Kasir's chief citizen. But when he met the eyes of Evanthia, daughter of the house, he had need of all his Arab cunning. When the household was asleep and Saad's duty was to escape to the city walls, not Evanthia but Evanthia's mother lured him to her room. Honor and duty both satisfied. Saad played an Arab hero's part in the ensuing pillage. Somehow Evanthia escaped him, but back in the pleasant pasture-lands her image gave...
...succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously, had inherited control from the founder, her father, Col. William D'Alton Mann. Under the direction of the baldpated, snowy-whiskered, plug-hatted Colonel, the magazine had a stormy 30-year career as Society's gossip-peddler. The Colonel died in 1920, leaving an estate...