Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel G. Craig is now editor...
...Chicago councilmen mused over the offer of Investment Dealer Frederick J. Lisman and Lawyer John Maynard Harlan,* who represent much Chicago and Manhattan money, to spend (eventually) $300,000,000 on the reorganization of Chicago transportation: rip out the Loop elevated structures, build subways, refurbish surface lines. Samuel Insull (public utilities) recently made a similar offer. As in his case, the musing councilmen did nothing about the newer offer...
...Republican primaries, Hiram Johnson lost with one card, triumphed by a scant margin with another. His man, Judge Robert M. Clarke, was repulsed for the Senate nomination by Senator Samuel M. Shortridge (staunch Coolidgeite). Late score: 305,750 to 219,239. For the governorship, C. C. Young (Johnson man) led Governor Friend W. Richardson...
...past summer gave Senator Reed his golden opportunity to bay after primary slush funds in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, June 21 et seq.). Republicans accuse Mr. Reed of sheer Administration baiting. People wonder what pressure could have been brought to bear to terminate, suddenly, his probing of Samuel Insull and other Illinois "angels...
...Samuel Insull Jr.-short, stocky, quick-spoken-has never had the least doubt of his destiny. Always, yet without obnoxious parade, he has carried himself as the proper successor of a potent sire. There was no starting at the "bottom of the ladder" for him. Graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, he studied public utility management problems in Europe and the U. S. under his father's skilled guidance. He has functioned as vice president and assistant to the president (his father) of the com pany he now heads. Now as president-with his training, with his 26 years...