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...Conferred with Chicago's crusading Silas Hardy Strawn on Unemployment...
...finding of Gangster Jack Zuta's record books (TIME, Sept.1). Since the first of the year the city's finances have been in dire straits. Last week 7,210 city employes were payless, despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity of our people in permitting our municipal machinery to be run by politicians...
Confident of the ultimate outcome of chain methods was Silas Hardy Strawn, chairman of Montgomery, Ward & Co. "The agencies attempting to create public distrust in the chain methods of distribution should and must be counteracted," said he. ". . . An enlightened public will be a friend and not an enemy." He carefully examined the legal end of the situation, said legislation against chain stores is in almost all. cases unconstitutional...
Board, Hyde, Kipling. Meanwhile to satisfy Secretary Hyde, the Chicago Board's business conduct committee was making its own investigation of the Soviet sales. Because Secretary Hyde did not complete his trip to Chicago to help Board of Trade's investigation, Board officials, led by their counsel, Silas Hardy Strawn, travelled to Washington to see him. When their "free, frank and friendly" conference broke up, they were still miles apart on interpreting the influence of the Red short sales upon wheat prices. Counsel Strawn voiced the opinion of practically all experienced grain traders when he said: "Short selling...
Silas Hardy Strawn, Chicago lawyer, one-time (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association LL.D...