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...week that the Democratic Party assembled in Chicago to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was the worst Depression week in Chicago banking. Nervous depositors swarmed into even the biggest Loop banks, demanded their money. Runs hit good banks and bad alike. That was the week that Charles Gates Dawes negotiated his notorious $90,000,000 RFC loan for his now defunct Central Republic. Long queues in the main banking rooms of First National were not dispersed until President Melvin Alvah Traylor addressed the crowd, explaining that he had enough cash for each & every depositor, that First National had weathered...
...proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many a disciple of the "International Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little on its upper façade except for the terra cotta bands following the bare outlines of the building's steel skeleton. It was begun in 1899. It might have been run up last year. Louis Sullivan...
...five and two-tenths miles course will be run this afternoon, starting up-stream near the Cambridge side of the Larz Anderson Bridge. Past Stillman Infirmary, the same path will be taken as in the New Hampshire event, but as the cemetery is entered, a loop has been added to the course. Then across the Watertown Bridge and down the Stadium side of the river to finish in front of Newell Boat House...
...puts no ban on portraying objects, parts of the body or things, orthodox synagogs have done without art for thousands of years. On view in Chicago this week were the first strictly orthodox Jewish synagog murals in the U. S. They were commissioned by Rabbi Elias Gamze of the Loop Orthodox Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant and next door to a cheap...
John now occupies his father's old office on the ground floor of the 13-story building in Des Moines's "Loop" He works hard, loves to play. He will bet on anything, any time, for any amount from a pack of cigarets up. His favorite gambling companion is his young brother "Mike." and when they play golf there are bets on nearly every stroke. John has a duffer's swing but manages to score about...