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...make their offers for "something like" 85 airplanes, 15 hangars located at fields all across the country, several million dollars' worth of shop equipment. Eyes turned toward the leading U. S. airmail contractors- Henry Ford in Detroit, the Colonial Air Transport Inc. (New England), National Air Transport Inc. (Midwest), Pacific Air Transport Inc.- expecting some joint or combined offer for the transcontinental job and properties...
...ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July 26) ; he gave them no information on fund disposal. Others did, last week, principally Samuel Insull, greatest of midwest utility potentates. Mr. Insull's competitor, in a comparatively smaller way is Senator W. B. McKinley, recently defeated in the Republican primaries by Col. Frank L. Smith, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Mr. Insull acknowledged giving $125,000 to Col. Smith. Then, no piker, he had further promoted...
...paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between Canton and Pittsburgh along which bootleggers, white slavers and "reindeers" (dope-peddlers) have plied their flourishing trades. But the same route extends to many another Ohio city. To quote a civic-proud...
...editorial was duly printed. Everywhere in the midwest people read it and groaned for the passing of manhood, seduced by the perfumed ways of a cinema fop. Over a hotel breakfast tray a closely muscled man, whose sombre skin was clouded with talcum and whose thick wrists tinkled with a perpetual arpeggio of fine gold bangles, read the effusion with rapidly mounting fury. Then he (Rudolph Valentino) wrote out and mailed to the Chicago Tribune editor a formal note. He said that he infinitely regretted that American statutes made illegal the honorable and historic duello. But he felt happy...
...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...