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...location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket...
...that would be a pity! This time, mounted police patrolled Loop streets, regular and special police stood in corridors. Teachers surged through the streets by thousands, singing and shouting. The biggest group, headed by John M. Fewkes, advanced upon Chicago Title & Trust Co. which they knew holds in escrow $10,000,000 for tax payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow...
Sweepings (RKO). Daniel Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) arrived in Chicago soon after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb...
...some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American cities." The entire Pacific is rimmed with earthquake potentialities, he then reminded the world. Earth is faulty and under cracking stress all along the west coast of North and South America (with an easterly loop which includes the West Indies). The terrestrial weakness stretches across Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka, whence it passes southward through the Japanese, Philippine and South Pacific archipelagoes...
Chicago's noisy Loop has few churches. High above lake-fronting Michigan Avenue is a Chevrolet sign, flashing the time every minute; on Sunday nights at 8 o'clock this is for many people a call to worship in Orchestra Hall. From the Stevens and Sherman Hotels and the Palmer House come salesmen, travelers, out-of-towners who have heard the Chicago Sunday Evening Club over the radio. Students, businessmen, homebodies come also. Of all faiths, they listen to preachers of all faiths. This week the Club celebrates its 25th birthday as "a service of Christian inspiration...