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...Chicago, even the ubiquitous art of stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...
During the past three years the number of men taking the Language Requirements examinations has lessened considerably according to figures obtained yesterday in the Recorder's office in University Hall. The percentage of men passing the various Latin French, and German examinations however was shown by a chart to follow no trend the passing of the barriers depending directly on the preparation of the candidates the demands of the tests markers of cetera...
...late John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From 1917 to 1927 Mr. Phillips' prices were exorbitant. Lawyer Buckner dramatically displayed them on a chart. Mr. Connolly had the power to jockey contracts. He seemed to have awarded them as he wished. He mysteriously acquired thousands of dollars. Mr. Connolly, said many, looked like material for a long-time jailbird...
They might mean consolidation of Chicago's two largest banks into a $1,000,000,000 institution, second in size only to the National City Bank (N. Y.). Listed in order of deposits, the new U. S. banking chart might read...
Those in category No. 4 may well feel the need of a chart...