POLITICAL NOTES: Plan for Chicago

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Chicago, often casually termed the "worst governed city in the world,'' approached, last week, another major cure experiment. Coming to a head was a plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A...

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