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...lawyer Louis S. Levy, onetime partner of the late, lusty Lawyer-Speculator Thomas L. Chadbourne, and hinted at a sinister deal six years ago between Judge Manton and the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy in connection with the receivership proceedings of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (subway...
Chief owner of the packing industry's grand hotel is Boston Financier Frederick Henry Prince, who is board chairman of Union Stockyard & Transit Co. (and of meat-packing Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager...
Meanwhile, further economic proscriptions against Jews continued. After January i Jews will be barred from all wholesale and transit trades. Employment contracts with Jews may be canceled on six weeks' notice. In Breslau telephone service to Jews was cut off. Spiritual ministration practically ceased for Jews: the Rabbis were in jail. Money expropriations and deliberate confusion in issuing and honoring emigration permits turned hundreds of fugitive Jews back at the border...
...squabbles and calms, Captain Walters finally won the series, three races to two. When he went to a luncheon given in his honor by the Boston Chamber of Commerce he discovered that the big silver trophy he had defended off & on for 17 years had mysteriously disappeared in transit from a Boston department store (where it had been on exhibition). Then, just as he was blasting the stiff-collared Bostonians with an explosion of Grand Banks invective, he was told that the race committee was unable (because of feeble public response) to raise the rest of the $10,000 expense...
...Chicago's 25 feet of largely-filled in elevation above Lake Michigan, its two lines will lead from existing "L" trackage on the North Side, shortcutting some trains into the "Loop" from outlying areas with time savings of as much as 16 to 20 minutes, and bringing rapid transit for the first time to the busy Milwaukee Avenue industrial district. In the "Loop" itself the lines will run under Dearborn and State Streets, a block apart, with communicating passenger tunnels connecting their continuous platforms at seven consecutive "Loop" streets. Effect of the system when promised unification of Chicago...