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Similar but less ambitious was the city-rescue plan of Silas Hardy Strawn, organizer of a Citizens' Committee of 76. His purpose last week was to induce big taxpayers to buy $20,000,000 worth of tax warrants, on the condition that it be economically expended by City and County authorities. Mr. Strawn saw as clearly as anyone the desperate straits into which Chicago politicians had worked their city. Said...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was in no mood to coöperate with the Strawn plan, to relinquish control over city finances. He talked grandly about selling tax warrants in New York and Europe if Chicago would not buy them. He blamed "reformers" and Chicago newspapers for the City's troubles. The city's newspapers long ago decided that the best way to get rid of the Mayor was to ignore him, have consistently done so through the present crisis. However they did not fail to print this message delivered last week by Mr. Strawn's committee...
Important Folk. Dr. Walther Simons, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court, was introduced as the guest of honor by past-President Silas Hardy Strawn after an organ rendition of "Tannenbaum" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dr. Simons compared the relation of the German and U. S. judiciaries to the executive and legislative branches of their governments. Hoped he: that the German Supreme Court would "reach the place in Germany that the Supreme Court holds in the United States...
...Peabody Francis X. Busch James D. Cunningham Charles Piez William Ruggles Dawes George McClelland Reynolds George 0. Fairweather John Fitzpatrick Carl Richter Harold Edwin Foreman J ulius Rosenwald Earl George Gubbins Herbert D. Simpson J. L. Jacobs James Simpson D. F. Kelly Albert Arnold Sprague Clayton Mark Silas Hardy Strawn Charles Edward Merriam A. W. Swayne Melvin Alvah Traylor Joseph Roberts Noel Frank F. Winans Victor A. Olander George Woodruff
Toward dusk, the Stimsons boarded a Pullman to cross the continent. ... At Chicago they paused to breakfast at the Blackstone Hotel with Silas Strawn...