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Elected. Samuel Insull, Chicago public utilitarian; to be board chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. Onetime president of both companies, he was succeeded in the former by Edward J. Doyle, in the latter by George F. Mitchell...
Cures. For immediate relief State Tax Commissioner William H. Malone suggested the sale of $50,000,000 tax warrants to Chicago railroads, industries, large landed corporations. Samuel Insull, Chicago's prime public utilitarian, protested that the city already owed his company $2,000,000 for gas and electricity...
...when they visit the U. S., a structure so enormous that it has contained two mammoth and two smaller bags all at once. But, even in the Skyscraper Age, size is not everything. The relatively tiny, thoughtfully beautiful chapel may attract quite as much attention as the mighty, bleakly utilitarian hangar...
Altogether the trend seems to be toward ultra-refinement. The auto-body is safely out of the buggy chrysalis. Enterprising designers begin to regard it as an entity, having its own particular problem and solution, its own utilitarian beauty...
Elected. Samuel Insull Jr., son of Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull; to be vice-chairman of Middle West Utilities Corp., of which his father is board chairman; in Chicago...