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Died, Timothy J. ("Tim") Crowe, 58, onetime (1926-28) president of Chicago's Sanitary District, while awaiting appeal from his conviction to defraud taxpayers out of $5,000,000 during the Sanitary District's scandalously extravagant era (1926-28); of heart disease; at Williams Bay, Wis. After his trial in February 1932, he had said: "I'll never live to go to jail." Last week the Chicago Hearstpapers revealed that Patrick-Nash, Cook County Democratic boss, whose contracting firm did a big business with the Sanitary District, was forced to settle a Federal tax claim on unreported...
...Koldhard Fax" will be played by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, in the presentation of "License Revoked," a one-act play on capital punishment. Mather will be arrayed against Mand Lynn Sentiment, Mrs. Vie Tim Foakes, and Spear I. T. Murder...
Remote though it is from the hurly-burly of day-to-day U. S. life, the Supreme Court is not unresponsive to the shifting economic thought of the nation. Its membership changes with tim and so does its concept of the law. New ideas, like cosmic rays, have a way of penetrating its ancient wall of detachment and starting little legal revolutions in its august consciousness. Many a sage observer believes that the Supreme Court today would reverse itself on child labor, would find a way to sustain minimum wage legislation...
...engraved: "Calvin Coolidge-1872-1933." Above it hung an oil painting of the onetime Presidential yacht Mayflower, one of Calvin Coolidge's few genuine diversions in office. Harry Ross stood close by. The only sound in the stillness of the house was the pitter-patter of Tiny Tim's claws as the Coolidge chow came & went on the hardwood floors. Far away through the same night with many a long whistle there roared a 13-car special bearing the great of Washington to Northampton...
...front of me were my old comrades -Tim Buck, chief Communist organizer of Canada; Malcolm Bruce, whose house I had painted in those far-off days; Tom Ewen, special organizer in industrial disputes; Amos Hill; John Boychuck-all facing a possible sentence . . . for unlawful conspiracy and sedition...