Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...
...corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
Credit for the correction belonged to Hermon Dunlap Smith, who had written a biography of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829). Biography and Dearborn's own war diary were being distributed last week to members of Chicago's bibliophilic Caxton Club (Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, on sale at some bookstores...
...Last week the Cleveland chapter of the non-political American Association of Social Workers made public a report on conditions during those weeks, in the midst of which (Dec. 5) Governor John W. Bricker valiantly declared: "Nobody is starving in the State of Ohio...
...Last week, in a 75,000-word report and a covering note to Secretary Perkins, Dean Landis answered the first question thus: "The evidence does not permit the finding that Harry R. Bridges is either a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with that party. ..." Dean Landis added: "I have not deemed it necessary to find whether or not [the Communist Party] advocates, advises or teaches the overthrow of the Government of the U. S. by force or violence. . . ." He thus left the status of many a Communist alien as uncertain as ever, left Frances Perkins no practical choice...