Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an absence of 69 years, Jefferson Davis was last week ready to re-enter the U. S. Capitol as a representative of Mississippi. In heroic bronze he will take his place in Statuary Hall. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman has finished the figure-erect, head high, eyes front, topcoat flowing from his shoulders, a pair of eyeglasses held loosely in his right hand-the President of the Confederacy entering an important situation with none of the air of a Lost Cause...
...long, narrow control room of Columbia Broadcasting Co., high above Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, are switches, plugs, tubes, grills, meters, other complicated instruments of broadcasting science. At 6 a. m. one cold, black morning last week, there stood brawny Harold Vivian, chief control room operator. He had been on duty all night making tests. Now he was watching the chief engineer and assistants inspect apparatus, establish contact with outlying stations. A hushed, nervous expectancy filled the room. In a half-minute they would begin broadcasting to 59 stations in the U. S. and Canada, a prime program...
Wide was the wonder throughout the land last week as Chicago, the Second City, floundered deeper into its spectacular mire of public debt. Rarely before has a full-grown municipality made such a financial exhibition of itself. There was no money in the City Treasury, none in Cook County Treasury, none in the School Board Treasury. The 23 park boards were penniless, the largest, South Park, abandoning its preparations for the Centennial Fair until it could sell a bond issue. The credit of city and county agencies was practically exhausted...
Similar but less ambitious was the city-rescue plan of Silas Hardy Strawn, organizer of a Citizens' Committee of 76. His purpose last week was to induce big taxpayers to buy $20,000,000 worth of tax warrants, on the condition that it be economically expended by City and County authorities. Mr. Strawn saw as clearly as anyone the desperate straits into which Chicago politicians had worked their city. Said...
...reformers" and Chicago newspapers for the City's troubles. The city's newspapers long ago decided that the best way to get rid of the Mayor was to ignore him, have consistently done so through the present crisis. However they did not fail to print this message delivered last week by Mr. Strawn's committee of 76 and aimed directly at the Mayor...