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16) LaSalle. (Named after René Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle who explored savage North America as did that other French explorer-Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit.)
They say Europe is effete. They say nothing can move sophisticated Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big...
A onetime Democrat, he became Secretary of the Treasury in a Republican administration. As such, he financed the first war which the U. S. fought against a civilized country other than Great Britain.* He was official head of Chicago's World's Fair. He was long President of...
Once there was a pudgy-faced newsboy on Chicago's West Side. His name was William Lorimer. His tactics were questionable but he moved fast-bootblack, sign painter, street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and...
Last week word got about that William Lorimer had returned quietly to Chicago from the Republic of Colombia where he had proposed to develop that nation's resources with his Colombia-American Syndicate. Incidentally, he hoped to regain his own fortunes. His venture had failed. Perhaps word of his...