Word: strawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago, often casually termed the "worst governed city in the world,'' approached, last week, another major cure experiment. Coming to a head was a plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this...
...tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime itself. Retiring as president of the American Bar Association at last week's meeting in Seattle, was Silas Hardy Strawn, eminent resident of "the crime capital of the U. S.," Chicago. Last winter, when a group of Chicagoans, who were really worried about Chicago's condition, asked Mr. Strawn to preside over a discussion meeting, he irritated many of them by pooh-poohing blandly: "In 36 years in Chicago...
Through the members of the Law School Faculty the student body comes in contact with the leading law teachers of the country, but it is only occasionally that they have the opportunity of hearing men of equal prominence in practice. This year the Society brought Silas H. Strawn, president of the American Bar Association, and Josiah Marvel, chairman of the Executive Council of the Law School. The appreciation of the student body for this service was shown by the fact that the lecture halls were filled each time, the total attendance being about...
Having investigated, the citizens asked President Silas Hardy Strawn of the American Bar Association to preside over them at a discussion meeting. Last week the evening of the meeting came-rendered appropriate by the arrival that morning of three fresh corpses, the remains of some novice "hijackers," at a Chicago Heights morgue...
...citizens listened seriously to Chief Justice W. E. Brothers of the Criminal Court, to State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, to members of the Chicago Crime Commission, to Police Chief Hughes, all of whom said they were doing their duty and quoted figures to prove it. Lawyer Strawn, ever judicious, sought to mitigate the officials' embarrassment by saying heartily, "I do not believe crime here is greater than it is in any other city. In 36 years in Chicago, I have never been held up, robbed or racketeered. . . . By this testimony here we may do something to purge...