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Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth’s Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledg...
Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham’s pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower.
DODD REITERATED HIS COMMITMENT to objectivity and understanding in an August 12 letter to Roosevelt, in which he wrote that while he did not approve of Germany’s treatment of Jews or Hitler’s drive to...
Chicago’s merchant princes like devils. George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company’s treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. Pullman’s fri...
Chicago shrugged the sniping off. Big was big. Success today would dispel at last the eastern perception that Chicago was nothing more than a greedy, hog-slaughtering backwater; failure would bring hu...
But the sound frightened Isaac. The thudding, he knew, was caused by great deep-ocean swells falling upon the beach. Most days the Gulf was as placid as a big lake, with surf that did not crash but ra...
But Zimmermann surprised him. On Friday, March 2, during a press conference, Zimmermann himself confirmed that he had sent the telegram. By admitting the truth, Lansing wrote, he blundered in a most a...
But Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews into America were likely to be immense, because America...
Burnham and Root became rich men. Not Pullman rich, not rich enough to be counted among the first rank of society alongside Potter Palmer and Philip Armour, or to have their wives’ gowns described in...
At one point during the Holmes investigation Chicago's chief of police told a reporter he'd just as soon have a squad of reporters under his command as detectives.
Anyone wishing to bring his own Kodak to the fair had to buy a permit for two dollars,
And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. Having seen it, Rudyard Kipling wrote, I desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savage...
America, secure in its fortress of neutrality, watched the war at a remove and found it all unfathomable. Undersecretary of State Robert Lansing, number two man in the State Department, tried to put t...
A common story had begun to circulate: One man telephones another and in the course of their conversation happens to ask, How is Uncle Adolf? Soon afterward the secret police appear at his door and in...
A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight.
A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.
. . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
The club had provided for music was a lone pianist who had no idea what kind of piece might accompany such an exotic dance. Bloom thought a moment, hummed a tune, then plinked it out on the keyboard o...
She suppressed a revolt led by the board’s executive secretary that had caused open warfare between factions of elegantly coiffed and dressed women.