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Negro Alderman A. B. Whitlock did not insinuate that Ku Klux Klannism lay behind the Emerson strike. Instead, he firmly said: "This [appropriation] is a useless expenditure of the taxpayers' money. We have plenty of room now for all the schoolchildren of Gary. This money [$15,000] wouldn't equip a shack, and the site you propose is in a wilderness. There are no streets, no sewers, no facilities there...
White Alderman Merritt Martindale, senior Councilman, interrupted Mr, Whitlock. "Now, Bill." he said, "I hope you're not going to take a wrong view of us whites. The difference is there and it does no good to try to hide...
UPROOTED - Brand Whitlock - Appleton ($2). You see them wherever you go but especially in Paris and on the Riviera-the uprooted ones, the people without a country, This is not a realistic book about them, for it is full of happy endings, special cases. Yet you can imagine, or you know, what might have befallen a callow, spirited filly like Betty Marsh-whose taste of the wide World during the War made Macochee, Ohio, intolerable and took her back to run her chances among the big hotels, casinos, studios and half-soled, titled Romeos-if she had not finally fallen...
...Brand Whitlock would be a good man to write an Uprooted laid right in the U. S.-the uprooting of small-town folk and their transplanting, with various degrees of success, in big cities. He was born at Urbana, Ohio, 57 years ago, becoming a political correspondent on the old Chicago Record-Herald, and later an assistant to Illinois' Secretary of State at Springfield, what time (1893-97) he tutored in law. Then he went to Ohio, passed its bar requirements and began practicing in Toledo. That town welcomed his vigor and independence, soon (1905) electing him mayor over...
FORTY YEARS OF IT-Brand Whitlock-Appleton ($2.50). Memoirs, politics and public life in the Middle West, which William Allen White describes in a brief preface as "an adventure in easy reading and high thinking...