Word: civically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Municipal, State and civic anti-crime drives seemed last week to reflect the present temper of the Government...
...publicity Chicago's press usually affords it. The New York Telegram, after a survey, reported that there had been 89 shootings in the city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened to an oldtime frontier vigilance committee. A call was issued for complaints from racket victims. These poured in immediately, revealing gang levies on trucking, music, milk, funerals, laundries, freight, cleaning...
Chicagoans learned that Actor John Bryan who has been playing Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the Chicago Civic Theatre is a grandson of the late great William Jennings Bryan. Mode of discovery: he was visited by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, whose son he is by her first marriage with William Homer Leavitt. John Bryan Leavitt was adopted by his grandfather, shortened his name...
...Dean who, after carrying most of his companions behind the brattice, was so badly gassed he was expected to die. President Titus and his party of guests were not among the saved. He, a Yale-educated Wartime airman, aged 41, father of three, was a popular Ohio clubman and civic leader, first associated with the company (one of the biggest in Ohio) through his marriage to the daughter of its late president, John S. Jones...
Best Plays in Manhattan CIVIC REPERTORY-The bill changes during the week, but all of Miss Le Gallienne's shows are relished by the serious drama-lover...