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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ILLINOIS: Following the defeat of Edward R. Litzinger, of the Lundin machine, by Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder for the Republican mayoralty nomination, a Grand Jury investigation of the Chicago City Hall was authorized. This marks another step in the successful attack on the Thompson-Lundin organization, characterized as a " second Tweed ring...
...water usually discourages the most hardy swimmer. The new pool, to be located very judiciously on the north side of Hemenway, with a gallery capacity of 2000, will have the immediate effect of resuscitating the swimming team. More than this, as Major Moore says, it is the next logical step in the program of "sports for all". Further development in the direction started by the gift of Soldiers Field, and continued within the past two years by the new organization of rowing and the expansion of the squash courts, will benefit the entire University...
...passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although a step of great importance, was distinctly of a non-partisan nature, while the two most important partisan measures, sponsored by the President himself, the Ship Subsidy and the Hague Court participation were smothered to death by his own confederates...
Every year hundreds of lonely students come to the University; yet no adequate means exist to provide for these unfortunates. The Phillips Brooks House has persistently disregarded its opportunity for extending its social service work in this direction,--a step which would be received with great acclaim by members of the University, lonely or not. With such a department a working unit in the University it is easily conceivable that the cry for "one three-minute 'aig'" will give place to the more romantic "one eighteen-year blonde...
This rise in the New York Reserve rates is the first since 1920, when the strained condition of American credit gradually forced the commercial paper rate to 7%. During the ensuing liquidation the rate fell step by step to 4% where it has hung for many months...