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...socked at Mayor Ed Kelly, Governor Dwight Green, lawyers and bankers and traction interests, politicians, the plain citizenry ("suckers . . ."). General theme: Chicago is a shoddy place to live, because of cupidity, stupidity, boondoggling and apathy. All this was not so much an expose as a loud public belch, well illustrated. In stories signed by "William Tell," the public was invited to join in with its own complaints. Said the Herald-American: "Tell William . . . and let William Tell...
...Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died in 1927, the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, as trustees for the Huntington estate, became operators of the system, held on until the war boom in traction companies brought the chance to sell...
...midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend to get rid of in this town...
Behind the appointment, yet to be confirmed by stockholders, lies a struggle by Chicago's American Light and Traction Co. to boost the price of Detroit Edison stock. A.L. & T. holds 1,289,205 shares of Detroit Edison, which it purchased for $53 million. SEC has ordered A.L. & T. to divest itself of its Edison holdings. But the present market value at 19⅞ is only a little over $25 million. A.L. & T. naturally dislikes to take the huge loss...
...Hanna illustrates pioneer house construction by telling the story of Ancestor Washington ("Wash") Hanna's log cabin in Waterloo, Iowa. He skips his chance, however, to draw from the story of his distant kinsman, "President-Marker" Marcus Alonso ("Mark") Hanna (groceries, coal & iron, traction, banking...