Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the City Council last week appeared Chicago's Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Sweepingly he vetoed two-thirds of the lean budget. Sweepingly he absolved his administration of blame for the fiscal fix, put the blame on real estate revaluators.* Generously he proposed a budget greater by $6,313,000 than Chicago's estimated 1930 revenue, demanded reinstatement of 1,502 employes. Galleries crammed with jobless Thompson men roared with applause when the City Fathers failed to override this program...
...public utility laws, appeared last week Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Even as many a Yale student has replied "I don't know" to questions asked by Professor Fisher, so Professor Fisher replied "I don't know" to questions asked by the committee's counsel. Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Finally Professor Fisher admitted that he was unprepared, had not made any particular study of Public Utilities. Loath to take a zero for the day's recitation, however, Professor Fisher offered a vast prophecy which, if valid, bears weightily on public...
...portrait is finished, she pays the artist his fee, say $10,000. But, since she feels that he has not done justice to her appearance, the lady allows the artist to take back the picture for improvement. Having "improved" it, the artist returns the painting-together with his bill for, say, $7,000. Should the lady pay the bill or allow the artist...
When this dilemma presented itself to Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait...
Editor is Alison Reppy, Professor of Law at N. Y. U. Advisors include, besides law teachers, practicing aviation and radio attorneys-John William Davis, William Patterson MacCracken, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Warren Jefferson Davis. Also William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, onetime (1925-28) Assistant to the Attorney-General; Manton Davis, General Attorney for Radio Corp. of America; Louis G. Caldwell, onetime Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission...